one week in December 1983 and became one of the highest selling singles of 1984. The song reached a peak of No. 7 in the UK singles chart in 1983. , it had also sold 245,577 digital copies in the UK. , it had racked up 287,200 downloads and 4.83 million streams in the UK. In popular media In April 2008, South Bend, Indiana, radio station WZOW played the song continuously for several days on end, a stunt drawing attention to the station's format change from alternative rock to adult contemporary. The song was also used as a karaoke song in two season 2 episodes of ABC's The Good Doctor, "Islands Part One" and "Tough Titmouse". Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts All-time charts Certifications Cover versions Danish blues-rock singer Peter Thorup and pop singer Anne Grete Rendtorff had great success with a version with Danish lyrics in 1984 called Skibe uden Sejl (Ships without Sails). The song was used as title track for the Danish TV series Måske i morgen (maybe tomorrow) shown on Danish national television DR. Jamaican reggae artist Owen Gray covered the song on an album entitled "Little Girl" in 1984. The chorus of the 1998 hip-hop song "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" is an interpolation of the chorus of "Islands in the Stream". The song was made by Pras and Wyclef Jean along with vocals from Mya. Country artists Hailey Whitters and ERNEST, under the moniker Countrypolitan, covered the song in 2021 Bee Gees' recorded version The Bee Gees performed their version live at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on 14 November 1997, which was released a year later on One Night Only, with solo vocal by Barry Gibb. A studio version was recorded for their 2001 retrospective Their Greatest Hits: The Record, which has since featured on the 2004 Number Ones and on the 2010 Mythology box set. The chorus of Pras's 1998 hit "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)", which in turn is a reworking of the original Rogers and Parton release, replaces the final chorus in the studio recording. The live version of the song appears on their Love Songs compilation. Personnel (studio version) Robin Gibb – vocals Maurice Gibb – keyboard, programming John Merchant – sound engineer Personnel (live version) Barry Gibb – lead vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar Robin Gibb — harmony and backing vocals Maurice Gibb –