Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Way We Were

Barbra Streisand

Entered Nov 24, 1973 · peaked at #1 on Feb 2, 1974 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 27, 1974

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #31, 6 wk
Record Power
45.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
November 1973 – April 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
Barbra Streisandprimary100%46.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 2, 1974 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Way We WereBarbra Streisand
  2. #2You're SixteenRingo Starr
  3. #3Love's ThemeLove Unlimited Orchestra
  4. #4Show And TellAl Wilson
  5. #5AmericansByron MacGregor
  6. #6I've Got To Use My ImaginationGladys Knight And The Pips
  7. #7Let Me Be ThereOlivia Newton-John
  8. #8Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)Aretha Franklin
  9. #9The JokerThe Steve Miller Band
  10. #10Spiders & SnakesJim Stafford

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