Songs · Billboard Hot 100

(They Long To Be) Close To You

Carpenters

Entered Jun 20, 1970 · peaked at #1 on Jul 25, 1970 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 10, 1970

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 18 wk
Record Power
43.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
11
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
June 1970 – October 1970

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Carpentersprimary100%42.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 25, 1970 on the timeline →
  1. #1(They Long To Be) Close To YouCarpenters
  2. #2Mama Told Me (Not To Come)Three Dog Night
  3. #3Band Of GoldFreda Payne
  4. #4The Love You Save/I Found That GirlJackson 5
  5. #5Make It With YouBread
  6. #6Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)The Temptations
  7. #7Ride Captain RideBlues Image
  8. #8O-o-h Child/Dear PrudenceThe 5 Stairsteps
  9. #9Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm YoursStevie Wonder
  10. #10Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins' Singers

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