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Global Single Chart
50 years ago
the most popular tracks worldwide
according to the national single charts
dated to October 30, 1976
compiled and provided by

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1 / 5
week 4
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Columbia - 2 weeks at No.1
3 / 3
week 5
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
RSO
2 / 1
week 10
Dancing Queen - Abba
Atlantic / Epic / Polydor
4 / 2
week 15
Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
Rocket
6 / 8
week 4
I Only Want To Be With You - Bay City Rollers
Arista
10 / -
week 2
Daddy Cool - Boney M.
Hansa / Atlantic
5 / 6
week 8
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Epic
9 / -
week 2
Mississippi - Pussycat
Sonet / EMI
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Capitol
7 / 7
week 12
(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band
T.K. / RCA
 

"If You Leave Me Now" was released on July 30, 1976, as the second single from Chicago's eighth studio album X (1976). The excellent soft-rock ballad was written and sung by bass player Peter Cetera. The song won two Grammy Awards for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (strings) for arranger Jimmie Haskell and producer James William Guercio and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. "If You Leave Me Now" went to the pole position in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland, and reached the top three in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Sweden.

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