It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• Fm – E♭ – D♭ – Csus4 – C
  i – bVII – bVI – Vsus4 – V
• Fm – Fm7 – Fm6 (×2)
  i – i7 – i6
• Fm
  i

Verse 1

• Fm – Csus4 – C – Fm – B♭m7
  i – Vsus4 – V – i – iv7
• Csus4 – C (×2)
  Vsus4 – V

Chorus

• D♭ – E♭ – C – Fm – D♭ – B♭m – B♭m/C – C7 (×2)
  bVI – bVII – V – i – bVI – iv – iv (bass C) – V7

Bridge

• D♭ – E♭ – C – Fm (×3)
  bVI – bVII – V – i
• B♭m – Fm/C – D♭ – Dm7♭5 – C/E – Fm – C/G – Fm/A♭ – Csus4 – C – Fm
  iv – i⁶₄ – bVI – viø7 – V⁶ – i – V⁶₄ – i⁶ – Vsus4 – V – i

Verse 2

• Fm – Csus4 – C – Fm – B♭m7
  i – Vsus4 – V – i – iv7
• Csus4 – C (×3)
  Vsus4 – V

Outro

• D♭ – E♭ – C – Fm (×6)
  bVI – bVII – V – i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0651, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 2 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.