When Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey peaked in 1981 at #9 on the Billboard Chart it was considered a great success, but the song didn’t shake anything up at that time. In fact, at the end of the year it didn’t even rank in the Top 50 in the end of year charts. (From 1981 or 1982 since the song was released later in the year.)
What’s fascinating to me is that the song got bigger and bigger decades later and has been one of the most downloaded and streamed songs of all time. Now Forbes Magazine called it the “Biggest song of all time.” What an incredible honor.