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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart

Bee Gees

Entered Jun 26, 1971 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 2, 1971

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Record Power
38.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#1
4 weeks there · first Aug 7, 1971
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
June 1971 – October 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 it 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
Bee Geesprimary100%38.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 7, 1971 on the timeline →
  1. #1How Can You Mend A Broken HeartBee Gees
  2. #2Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)The Raiders
  3. #3You've Got A FriendJames Taylor
  4. #4Mr. Big StuffJean Knight
  5. #5Draggin' The LineTommy James
  6. #6Take Me Home, Country RoadsJohn Denver
  7. #7It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth MoveCarole King
  8. #8Beginnings/Colour My WorldChicago
  9. #9What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and JohnTom Clay
  10. #10Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)Marvin Gaye

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