"Stayin' Alive" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack.

In a UK television poll on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fifth in The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song.

Over the years, the brothers have had mixed feelings about the song, admitting it brought them tremendous fame but conversely branded them as a disco act, despite a long and varied career before and after.

The shortage of qualified replacement drummers in the area prompted the group to try a drum machine, but it did not offer satisfactory results.

[7] Albhy Galuten talks about the recording of "Stayin' Alive": Barry and I listened carefully to find a bar that felt really good.

We chose a bar that felt so good that we ended up using that same loop on 'Stayin' Alive,' and 'More Than a Woman,' and then again on Barbra Streisand's song 'Woman in Love.'

The single was eventually released in mid-December, a month after the album, and moved to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February, where it stayed for four weeks.

[7] Initial plans were for Yvonne Elliman, then known for ballads, to record "How Deep Is Your Love" for Saturday Night Fever, while the Bee Gees produced their own version of the more disco-oriented "If I Can't Have You" for the film.

Satisfied with this switch, Elliman's interpretation made the soundtrack, while the Bee Gees' version was relegated to the B-side of the "Stayin' Alive" single.

[8] Billboard magazine reviewed the single calling it one of the Bee Gees best songs and an "almost irresistible dance tune.

"[11] A reviewer from Cash Box said that it "combines catchy melodies, falsetto harmonies and a dancing beat in a package that will lead to big pop and R&B chart numbers.

[14] As the group walks past one of the railway cars in the video, the words "New York Central" can be seen printed on the side of the train above a passenger window.

[16] "Stayin' Alive" was used in a study to train medical professionals to provide the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR.

[22] Misty Quigley from Yellowjackets also performs CPR to the beat of 'Stayin' Alive' on Crystal/Kristen in Season 2, episode 5, "Two Truths and a Lie," airing in 2023.

In 1995, British electronic music group N-Trance recorded a dance version of "Stayin' Alive", with new lyrics and rapping by Ricardo da Force.

This cover was released in September 1995 by All Around the World Productions as the third single from the group's debut album, Electronic Pleasure (1995).

The song was also a major hit in Europe, reaching number two in Finland, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and peaking within the top five in several other countries.

[102] It additionally entered the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it rose to number three.

Larry Flick from Billboard commented, "U.K. import enthusiasts are already aware of this jumpy rap interpretation of the Bee Gees disco classic.

[105] A reviewer from Music Week rated the song three out of five, saying that rapper da Force "takes the mic for this radical reworking of the Bee Gees classic which isn't Euro enough to grab the same audience as their recent international hit 'Set You Free'".

[107] A music video was made for "Stayin Alive", directed by British director Alex De Rakoff[108] and produced by Spidercom Films.

On 10 February 2017, Capitol Records released a new version of the song entitled "Stayin' Alive" (Serban mix).

[159] The song was mixed by Șerban Ghenea from "hi-resolution audio files" from the original recording session of "Stayin' Alive", and it was mastered by Tom Coyne.

During a bar-room fight, the song accidentally starts playing on a jukebox, turning the scene into a parody of Saturday Night Fever.

[164] In 2010, Kingsley and Perdomo released a country version of the song with a prominent banjo part playing the riff.

It is featured on their album "Fake Smiles" A Japanese language cover version by Avu-chan appeared on the soundtrack to the 2022 film, Bullet Train.