"Hot in the City" is a song by Billy Idol, released as the lead single from his 1982 self-titled debut album.

[3] The Exterminator Mix of the song was released as a single in the UK on 29 December 1987.

The video features scenes from New York City, interspersed with stock footage of nuclear bomb tests.

", other versions of the song were recorded for various radio stations, including ones for such cities as "Amarillo", "Boston", "Minneapolis", "New Haven", "Phoenix", "Philly", "Chattanooga", and "Sioux Falls", or none at all with a repeated synthesiser stab instead.

The song, with a remixed synthesizer intro, was used as the introduction [7] for Booker, the TV series spin-off of 21 Jump Street.