One Step Beyond (song)
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Chart performance

Chart (1979/1980) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

7
Austrian Singles Chart 19
Dutch GfK
GfK
The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health...

 chart
29
Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...

34
Irish Singles Chart
Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...

28
Swiss Singles Chart 3
US Billboard Club Play Singles
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

76

Song appearances

  • It is used in the episode "I'm with the Band" of the 2000-2001 show Freaks and Geeks
    Freaks and Geeks
    Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama television series, created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow, that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season...

    when one of the characters, Sam Weir, streaks around the school while trying to avoid showering after PE.
  • Appeared in the The Ongoing History of New Music
    The Ongoing History of New Music
    The Ongoing History of New Music is a Canadian radio program, produced by Corus Entertainment's ExploreMusic division in Toronto. The program, hosted by Alan Cross, is syndicated to several other radio stations, mostly but not exclusively Corus-owned, across Canada.The Ongoing History chronicles...

    episode "Alt-Rock's Greatest Instrumentals" from 2003.
  • The episode "Secrets and Loans" of Gilmore Girls
    Gilmore Girls
    Gilmore Girls is an American family comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. On October 5, 2000, the series debuted on The WB and was cancelled in its seventh season, ending on May 15, 2007 on The CW...

    featured the song during a pep rally.
  • The song is played at Ibrox Stadium when Rangers FC score a goal.
  • Fans of Walsall FC are known to occasionally sing this song.
  • After important home wins, the song is played at Stamford Bridge
    Stamford Bridge
    Stamford Bridge could be* Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England** The Battle of Stamford Bridge* Stamford Bridge , in London** by metonymy, Chelsea F.C., football club based in the stadium...

     where Chelsea fans sing and dance along.
  • BDO darts player Darryl Fitton
    Darryl Fitton
    Darryl Fitton is an English professional darts player currently playing in BDO events. He is nicknamed The Dazzler and comes to the stage dancing to the Madness song "One Step Beyond" wearing sunglasses. It is one of the most popular walk-ons with the audience...

    uses this song as his walk-on theme.
  • In the early 1980's MTV used the line "Hey You, Don't Watch That! Watch This!" In the beginning in some of their early ID's for new music airing on the network.
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