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Another One Bites the Dust
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Key facts
- B side
- " Don't Try Suicide " (US) " Dragon Attack " (UK)
- Released
- 16 August 1980
- Studio
- Musicland , Munich
- Genre
- Funk rock disco
- Length
- 3 : 35
- Label
- EMI (UK) Elektra (US)
- Songwriter
- John Deacon
- Producer
- Queen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Genre
- hard rock
- Followed by
- Need Your Loving Tonight
- Follows
- Play the Game
- Composer
- John Deacon
- Producer
- Reinhold Mack
- Duration
- 215
- Performer
- Queen
- Record label
- EMI Records
- Tonality
- F minor
- Lyrics by
- John Deacon
- Distribution format
- compact disc
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- publication date
- 1980-08-22
- first line
- Steve walks warily down the street
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- title
- Another One Bites the Dust
- recording date
- 1980-00-00
- single taken from the album or EP
- The Game
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Another One Bites the Dust" on YouTube
"Another One Bites the Dust" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by bassist John Deacon, the song was featured on the group's eighth studio album, The Game (1980). It was a worldwide hit, charting at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, from 4 October to 18 October (being their second and final number one single in the country). The song spent 15 weeks in the Billboard top 10 (the longest running top ten song of 1980), including 13 weeks in the top five, and 31 weeks total on the chart (more than any other song in 1980). It reached number two on the Hot Soul Singles chart and the Disco Top 100 chart, and number seven on the UK Singles Chart. The song is credited as Queen's best-selling single, with sales of over 7 million copies. This version was ranked at number 34 on Billboard's All-Time Top Songs.
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