Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

Entered Oct 27, 1973 · peaked at #2 on Dec 8, 1973 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 16, 1974

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 16 wk
Record Power
34.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
October 1973 – February 1974

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
Elton Johnprimary100%34.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 8, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Top Of The WorldCarpenters
  2. #2Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadElton John
  3. #3The Most Beautiful GirlCharlie Rich
  4. #4Just You 'n' MeChicago
  5. #5PhotographRingo Starr
  6. #6Space RaceBilly Preston
  7. #7The Love I Lost (Part 1)Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes
  8. #8Hello It's MeTodd Rundgren
  9. #9Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)Eddie Kendricks
  10. #10Leave Me Alone (ruby Red Dress)Helen Reddy

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