https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_Fire_(instrumental)
“Chariots of Fire” stayed for one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1982, after climbing steadily for five months (it made #1 in its 22nd[5] week on the chart), and to date remains the only piece by a Greek artist to top the U.S. charts.[6]
The single spent 64 weeks on the Australian charts, although it peaked at only #21. In Japan, “Chariots of Fire” was the best-selling single of 1981.[7] The track proved moderately successful in the UK, where it reached #12, but its parent album peaked at #5 and spent 107 weeks on the album chart.
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Jack Black references the song while in a record shop in the movie The Holiday (2006). It was played in the 1983 films National Lampoon’s Vacation and Mr. Mom, the 2003 films Bruce Almighty and Old School, the 2002 film The Master of Disguise, the 2000 film The Grinch, the 2007 film Are We Done Yet?, the 2009 film Old Dogs, the 2015 film Vacation, the 2020 film We Can Be Heroes, the 2014 film Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie, the 2006 film The Holiday, the 1993 film My Life, the 1997 film Good Burger, the 1999 TV special Robbie the Reindeer, and the 2005 films Madagascar and Kicking & Screaming.
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