Editing Rapper's Delight (section)

==Chart performance==
"Rapper's Delight" peaked at number 36 in January 1980 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.song-database.com/chhist.php?sid=11019&from=spu&type=ht |title=Billboard Hot 100 Chart History |publisher=Song-database.com |access-date=February 10, 2014}}</ref> number four on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot Soul Singles]] chart in December 1979. The song was much more successful internationally, reaching number one on the Canadian Top Singles chart in January 1980,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.9465a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.9465a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.9465a |title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |date=July 17, 2013 |publisher=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=2019-02-24}}</ref> number one on the Dutch Top 40, and number three on the [[UK Singles Chart]]. In 1980, the song was the anchor of the group's first album ''[[Sugarhill Gang (album)|The Sugarhill Gang]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6281561/sugarhill-gang-rappers-delight-first-chart-appearance-anniversary|title=35 Years Ago, Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' Made Its First Chart Appearance|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] }}</ref>

It was the first top 40 song to be available only as a 12-inch extended version in the US. Early pressings (very few) were released with a red label, with black print, on [[Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)|Sugar Hill Records]], along with a 7" 45rpm single (which is very rare). Later pressings had the more common blue label, in orange colored "roulette style" sleeves, fashioned after the label for [[Roulette Records]]; Roulette's [[Morris Levy]] and reputed mobster Tony Riviera had invested in Sugar Hill. Even later pressings were issued in the more common blue sleeves with the Sugarhill Records logo. In Europe, however, it was released on the classic 7-inch single format on French pop label [[Disques Vogue|Vogue]], with a shorter version of the song. It was this 7" single that reached number one in the Dutch chart. The song ranked number 251 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's 2004 list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".<ref name=Menconi/>

A British version of the song, with rewritten lyrics, was recorded for the song's 25th anniversary in 2004 by an ensemble of performers including [[Rodney P]], [[Chester P]], [[Kano (rapper)|Kano]], Simone, [[Yungun]], [[Sway (British musician)|Sway]], J2K, Swiss, [[Baby Blue (rapper)|Baby Blue]], [[Skibadee]], Luke Skys, and MC D.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/bernardpachampong/music-rappers-delight-25th |title=Music: Rappers Delight 25th Anniversary Special &#124; BBC Radio 1Xtra by Bernard P Achampong &#124; Free Listening on SoundCloud |website=Soundcloud.com |access-date=2016-10-15}}</ref>