Claim: A bass guitar player wrote Another One Bites the Dust.

`` Another One Bites the Dust '' is a 1980 song by British rock band Queen . Written by bass guitarist John Deacon , the song featured on the group 's eighth studio album The Game -LRB- 1980 -RRB- . The song was a worldwide hit , charting number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks , from October 4 to October 18 -LRB- their second number-one single in the country -RRB- . The song spent fifteen weeks in the Billboard top ten -LRB- the longest running top ten song of 1980 -RRB- and 31 weeks total on the chart -LRB- more than any other song in 1980 -RRB- . It reached number two on the Hot Soul Singles chart and the Disco Top 100 chart , and number seven on the UK Singles Chart . The song is credited as Queen 's best-selling single , with sales of over 7 million copies . This version was ranked at number 34 on Billboard 's All-Time Top Songs .   The song won an American Music Award for Favorite Rock Single and also garnered a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal .