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((DISPLAYTITLE:''Miami Vice'' Theme))
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((More citations needed|date=December 2009))
((Infobox song
| name       = Miami Vice Theme
| cover      = MiamiViceThemejap.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Japanese release cover
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Jan Hammer]]
| album      = [[List of Miami Vice soundtracks#Miami Vice|Miami Vice soundtrack]]
| B-side     = ((unbulleted list|"Eyes"|"The Original Miami Vice Theme"))
| released   = August 1985<ref>((cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Jan+Hammer&titel=Miami+Vice+Theme&cat=s|title=Jan Hammer singles))</ref>
| format     =
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Electronic rock]]<ref>((cite news|first= Troy L. |last= Smith |title= Every No. 1 song of the 1980s ranked from worst to best |website= [[Cleveland.com]] |date= 13 May 2021 |access-date= 30 January 2023|url= https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/05/every-no-1-song-of-the-1980s-ranked-from-mad-bogus-to-totally-bodacious.html))</ref>
| length     = 2:26
| label      = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| writer     = Jan Hammer
| producer   = Jan Hammer
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Crockett's Theme]]
| next_year  = 1986
| misc       = ((External music video|1=((YouTube|6nPTZqnIfFM|"Miami Vice Theme"))))
))

"'''''Miami Vice'' Theme'''" is a musical piece composed and performed by [[Jan Hammer]] as the theme to the television series ''[[Miami Vice]]''. It was first presented as part of the television broadcast of the show in September 1984, was released as a single in 1985, and peaked at number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. It was the last [[instrumental]] to top the Hot 100 until 2013, when "[[Harlem Shake (song)|Harlem Shake]]" by [[Baauer]] reached number one.<ref>((cite news|first= Jonah |last= Weiner |date= March 28, 2013 |title= On YouTube, Video Makes the Radio Star |newspaper= [[Bloomberg Businessweek]] |location= New York |access-date= April 6, 2014 |url= http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/on-youtube-video-makes-the-radio-star |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140310215729/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/on-youtube-video-makes-the-radio-star |archive-date= March 10, 2014 |url-status= dead))</ref> "''Miami Vice'' Theme" also peaked at number five in the UK and number four in Canada. In 1986, it won [[Grammy Award]]s for "[[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]]" and "[[Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance|Best Pop Instrumental Performance]]". This song, along with [[Glenn Frey]]'s number two hit "[[You Belong to the City]]", put the ''Miami Vice'' [[soundtrack]] on the top of the US album chart for 11 weeks in 1985, making it the most successful TV soundtrack of all time until 2006, when [[Disney Channel]]'s ''[[High School Musical]]'' beat its record.

==Versions==
*The 1:55-minute version that aired with the pilot. The famous synthesized guitar lead hook is absent from it, and it features distinct synth guitar notes in its midsection.
*The 0:57 version in the following 3 regular episodes, which only contains the percussion and keyboards, without the synth guitar hook. It was essentially a shortened version of the pilot, although it already featured the same melody progression and conclusion at its end as in all the later episodes.

According to Jan Hammer's manager Elliot Sears, the missing guitar lead hook was the result of the sound elements not being mixed together as Hammer intended.

*The 1:00 synth guitar hook version that aired with all later episodes. It was first introduced at the end of the first regular episode, ''Heart of Darkness'', over the closing credits, albeit with the guitar hook slightly more muted than in future episodes.
*The 2:26 full radio airplay version, the final 55 seconds of which are very similar to the 1:00 TV version.
*An extended dance remix, released in 1985 as a 12" single containing two different length versions (in addition to the original version of the theme).

==Music video==
The music video of the theme is a mini-episode of the TV series with Hammer as a fugitive on the run from [[Sonny Crockett|James "Sonny" Crockett]] and Ricardo Tubbs. Throughout the majority of the video, Hammer performs the theme in front of a projector screen playing footage from the TV series – including scenes of the Vice duo chasing him. In the end of the video, he boards a helicopter and escapes from Crockett's sight. The video also shows shots of [[Fairlight CMI]] screens including the page R (sequencer) page and the waveform page.

==Track listing==
;7": MCA / MCAP1000 (UK [[picture disc]])
: <small>(Mastered by [[Greg Fulginiti]])</small>
#"Miami Vice Theme" – 2:26
#"Miami Vice Theme" (TV version) – 1:00
#"Miami Vice Theme" (12" edit) – 4:30

;12": MCA / MCAT1000 (UK)
: <small>(Extended Remix and 12" edit done by [[Louis Silas, Jr.]])</small>
#"Miami Vice Theme" (Extended Remix) – 6:54
#"Miami Vice Theme" (TV version) – 1:00
#"Miami Vice Theme" (12" edit) – 4:30

==Chart performance==
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===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1985–1987)
!Peak<br>position
|-
((singlechart|Austria|4|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Flanders|20|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Canadaadultcontemporary|25|chartid=9299|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Canadatopsingles|3|chartid=0593|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Germany|5|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|songid=1573|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Ireland2|2|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Dutch40|23|year=1986|week=5|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Dutch100|22|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|New Zealand|8|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|Switzerland|8|artist=Jan Hammer|song=Miami Vice Theme|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
((singlechart|UK|5|date=19851026|access-date=June 1, 2013))
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]]<ref name="awards"/>
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|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="awards">((cite web|title= Jan Hammer – Allmusic |publisher= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= June 1, 2013 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jan-hammer-mn0000809357/awards))</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Hot Black Singles]]<ref name="awards"/>
|align="center"|10
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [[Dance Club Songs|Hot Dance Club Play]]<ref name="awards"/>
|align="center"|23
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [[Dance/Electronic Singles Sales|Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales]]<ref name="awards"/>
|align="center"|7
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Top Rock Tracks]]<ref name="awards"/>
|align="center"|29
|-
|US ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''<ref>((cite magazine|title= CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending NOVEMBER 9, 1985 |magazine= [[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]] |url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19851109.html |archive-date= August 28, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120828090450/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19851109.html))</ref>
|align="center"|1
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===Year-end charts===
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!Chart (1985)
!Position
|-
|Canada Top Singles (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref>((cite magazine|title= RPM's Top 100 Singles of 1985 |volume= 43 |issue= 16 |date= December 28, 1985 |magazine= [[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] |publisher= [[Library and Archives Canada]] |access-date= February 2, 2018 |url= http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0619&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0619.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0619))</ref>
|align="center"|36
|-
|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>((cite web|title= Top 100 Hits for 1985 |website= The Longbored Surfer |access-date= April 23, 2014 |url= http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1985))</ref>
|align="center"|27
|-
|US ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''<ref>((cite magazine|title= The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1985 |magazine= [[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]] |url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1985YESP.html |archive-date= October 1, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121001214739/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1985YESP.html))</ref>
|align="center"|11
|}
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==Appearances==
''Miami Vice''(('))s pilot episode, made as a two-hour TV movie, did not originally have a theme, but the musical sounds and notation that would become the theme were present as background score. When the series got picked up, Hammer created the 60-second version of the theme. The synth-guitar lead was missing in the aired version of the pilot and the first batch of episodes, and this unfinished version of the theme has remained attached to those episodes, even on the DVD video box set released in 2005.

==See also==
*[[List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985|List of ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985]]
*[[List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1985|List of ''Cash Box'' Top 100 number-one singles of 1985]]

==References==
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((Jan Hammer))
((Miami Vice))

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[[Category:1985 singles]]
[[Category:1985 songs]]
[[Category:1980s instrumentals]]
[[Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles]]
[[Category:Cashbox number-one singles]]
[[Category:Miami Vice|Theme]]
[[Category:New wave instrumentals]]
[[Category:Television drama theme songs]]
[[Category:MCA Records singles]]

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