Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Play That Funky Music

Wild Cherry

Entered Jun 19, 1976 · peaked at #1 on Sep 18, 1976 · 25 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 4, 1976

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 25 wkUK Singles Chart · #7, 11 wk
Record Power
47.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
25
June 1976 – December 1976

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
Wild Cherryprimary100%47.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 18, 1976 on the timeline →
  1. #1Play That Funky MusicWild Cherry
  2. #2(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your BootyKC And The Sunshine Band
  3. #3I'd Really Love To See You TonightEngland Dan & John Ford Coley
  4. #4A Fifth Of BeethovenWalter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
  5. #5You'll Never Find Another Love Like MineLou Rawls
  6. #6LowdownBoz Scaggs
  7. #7Devil WomanCliff Richard
  8. #8SummerWar
  9. #9If You Leave Me NowChicago
  10. #10You Should Be DancingBee Gees

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