Songs · Billboard Hot 100

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

Entered Feb 20, 1971 · peaked at #2 on Apr 10, 1971 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen May 29, 1971

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #80, 4 wk
Record Power
34.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
February 1971 – May 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
Marvin Gayeprimary100%34.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 10, 1971 on the timeline →
  1. #1Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)The Temptations
  2. #2What's Going OnMarvin Gaye
  3. #3Joy To The WorldThree Dog Night
  4. #4She's A LadyTom Jones
  5. #5For All We KnowCarpenters
  6. #6Me And Bobby McGeeJanis Joplin
  7. #7Doesn't Somebody Want To Be WantedThe Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones feat. David Cassidy
  8. #8Another Day/Oh Woman Oh WhyPaul McCartney
  9. #9Proud MaryIke & Tina Turner
  10. #10One Toke Over The LineBrewer & Shipley

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