The Main Event/Fight

"The Main Event/Fight"
"The Main Event/Fight"
Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album The Main Event
B-side	"The Main Event/Fight (instrumental)"
Released	June 1979
Genre	Disco; pop;
Length	4:39 (radio edit); 4:51 (The Main Event album version);
Label	Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Paul Jabara; Bruce Roberts;
Producer(s)	Bob Esty

"The Main Event/Fight" is a 1979 medley recorded by Barbra Streisand. The song is the title track and first and only single issued from the LP, The Main Event. The album is the soundtrack for the movie, The Main Event starring Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. The song became the first of two major disco-styled hits for Streisand, the other being "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," a duet with Donna Summer later the same year.

"The Main Event/Fight" spent four weeks at number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In Canada it reached number five.^[1] It was also a major Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number two and number one in those nations, respectively. The song did not chart outside North America and was largely left out of recurrent rotation, having among the highest amount of drop-off in radio airplay of the hits of 1979 (Streisand's other singles of that year also fared poorly in maintaining airplay).^[2]

Chart performance[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (1979)	Peak position
Canada (RPM) Top Singles^[1]	5
Canada (RPM) Adult Contemporary	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[3]	3
U.S. Adult Contemporary (Billboard)	2
U.S. Dance (Billboard)	13
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[4]	3

Year-end charts[]

Chart (1979)	Rank
Canada (RPM Top 200 Singles)^[5]	74
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[6]	35
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[7]	25

Certifications[]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[8]	Gold	1,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1979-09-15. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
^ Ross, Sean (June 10, 2020). "Made for dancin' but not built to last: the lost songs of 1979". RadioInsight.com. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19790901.html CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, September 1, 1979
^ "Top Singles – Volume 32, No. 13, December 22, 1979". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
^ "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
^ "CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1979, December 29, 1979". Retrieved 2017-01-18.
^ "American single certifications – Barbra Streisand – The Main Event". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 18, 2021.

External links[]

[auto-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1979-09-15. Retrieved 2018-07-09.

[2] Ross, Sean (June 10, 2020). "Made for dancin' but not built to last: the lost songs of 1979". RadioInsight.com. Retrieved June 10, 2020.

[3] Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X

[4] ttp://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19790901.html CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, September 1, 1979

[5] "Top Singles – Volume 32, No. 13, December 22, 1979". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 12 July 2014.

[6] "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.

[7] "CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1979, December 29, 1979". Retrieved 2017-01-18.

[United_States_certification-8] "American single certifications – Barbra Streisand – The Main Event". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 18, 2021.

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"The Main Event/Fight"

Single by Barbra Streisand
from the album The Main Event
B-side	"The Main Event/Fight (instrumental)"
Released	June 1979 (1979-06)
Genre	Disco pop
Length	4:39 (radio edit) 4:51 (The Main Event album version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Paul Jabara Bruce Roberts
Producer(s)	Bob Esty