Songs · UK Singles Chart

Play That Funky Music

Wild Cherry

Entered Oct 3, 1976 · peaked at #7 on Nov 7, 1976 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 12, 1976

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 25 wkUK Singles Chart · #7, 11 wk
Record Power
22.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
October 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%22.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 7, 1976 on the timeline →
  1. #1If You Leave Me NowChicago
  2. #2MississippiPussycat
  3. #3You Make Me Feel Like DancingLeo Sayer
  4. #4Don't Take Away The MusicTavares
  5. #5When Forever Has GoneDemis Roussos
  6. #6HurtThe Manhattans
  7. #7Play That Funky MusicWild Cherry
  8. #8HowzatSherbet
  9. #9Summer of My LifeSimon May
  10. #10Love and AffectionJoan Armatrading

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