Songs · Billboard Hot 100

If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot

Entered Dec 26, 1970 · peaked at #5 on Feb 20, 1971 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 3, 1971

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #30, 9 wk
Record Power
26.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
December 1970 – April 1971

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
Gordon Lightfootprimary100%26.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 20, 1971 on the timeline →
  1. #1One Bad AppleThe Osmonds
  2. #2Knock Three TimesDawn
  3. #3Rose GardenLynn Anderson
  4. #4I Hear You KnockingDave Edmunds
  5. #5If You Could Read My MindGordon Lightfoot
  6. #6Mama's PearlJackson 5
  7. #7Groove MeKing Floyd
  8. #8Sweet MaryWadsworth Mansion
  9. #9Mr. BojanglesNitty Gritty Dirt Band
  10. #10Lonely DaysBee Gees

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If You Could Read My Mind — Gordon Lightfoot · ChartReign