Classic dance floor tune ‘YMCA’ is preserved for posterity The US Library of Congress has added the iconic Village People track to its National Recording Registry.
Each year the registry identifies 25 songs that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" to the United States, and preserves them: and this year the iconic tune is one of the songs that have been chosen!
The song came out in 1978, and reached number one in more than a dozen countries!
Some of the other music chosen for the registry this year include Dr Dre's debut studio album 'The Chronic'; and Whitney Houston's cover of 'I Will Always Love You'.