Jessie's Girl

"Jessie's Girl"
Single by Rick Springfield
from the album Working Class Dog
B-side"Carry Me Away"
ReleasedFebruary 1981
GenrePower pop[1]
Length3:14
LabelRCA Records
Songwriter(s)Rick Springfield
Producer(s)Keith Olsen
Rick Springfield singles chronology
"Take a Hand"
(1976) 		"Jessie's Girl"
(1981) 		"I've Done Everything for You"
(1981)

"Jessie's Girl" is a song written by Australian singer Rick Springfield. It was released in the album Working Class Dog, which was marketed in February 1981.[2] The song is about unrequited love of a young man for his best friend's girlfriend.

Personnel

Credits sourced from Mix:[3]

Performance

Upon its release in the United States (US) in 1981, "Jessie's Girl" was slow to top the charts. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 28 March[4] but took 19 weeks to hit No. 1[5] reaching that position on 1 August,[6] one of the slowest climbs to No. 1 at that time.[5] The song remained in that position for two weeks and would be Springfield's only No. 1 hit.[4] The song was at No. 1 when MTV launched on August 1, 1981.[7] The song ultimately spent 32 weeks on the chart.[8]

The Billboard ranked it as No. 5 for all of 1981.[9] The song also peaked at No. 1 in Springfield's native country of Australia and later won him a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards.

The song was released in the United Kingdom (UK) in March 1984 and peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1984. Springfield recorded an acoustic version of the song for his 1999 album, Karma.

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[24] Gold 75,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[25] Platinum 600,000
United States (RIAA)[27] Gold 1,961,928[26]

^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ Huey, Steve. "Rick Springfield – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 May 2014. After a solid decade's worth of work in the '70s, Rick Springfield turned into an international star in the early '80s thanks to the power pop classic "Jessie's Girl."
  2. ↑ Ling, Dave (16 April 2015). "The real story behind Rick Springfield's Jessie's Girl". Classic Rock. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Classic Tracks: Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl"". mixonline.com. June 2013. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Whitburn, Joel (1991). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 545.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Grein, Paul (8 May 1982). "Chartbeat". Billboard. Vol. 94, no. 18. p. 6. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. ↑ "Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 30. 1 August 1981. p. 68. ISSN 0006-2510.
  7. ↑ "Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield". Songfacts. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl – Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Top 100 Hits for 1981". The Longbored Surfer. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Australia No. 1 hits -- 1980's". World Charts. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 0363." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  12. ↑ "Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  13. ↑ "Rick Springfield Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Rick Springfield Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  15. ↑ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending JULY 25, 1981". Cash Box. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012.
  16. ↑ "Record World Singles" (PDF). Record World. 1 August 1981. p. 25. ISSN 0034-1622. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  17. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Jessie's Girl". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  18. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  19. ↑ "National Top 100 Singles for 1981". Kent Music Report. 4 January 1982. p. 7. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via Imgur.
  20. ↑ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  21. ↑ "Top 100 Singles of 1981". RPM. Vol. 35, no. 22. Library and Archives Canada. 26 December 1981. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014.
  22. ↑ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1981". Cash Box. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012.
  23. ↑ "Hot 100 Turns 60". Billboard. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  24. ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl". Music Canada.
  25. ↑ "British single certifications – Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
  26. ↑ "Nielsen SoundScan Charts June 23, 2016" (PDF). DefJamPromo. Nielsen. August 3, 2022.
  27. ↑ "American single certifications – Rick Springfield – Jessie_s Girl". Recording Industry Association of America.
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