 The song climbed to number twenty-five on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, reaching number thirty-seven for the U.S. Maxi-Singles Sales category.Despite its only moderate success in the U.S. chart, the song became a major hit on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number one for two weeks in January and February 1987.It was the UK's first house music number one, and paved the way for the acid house sound popular there during the late 1980s.