Songs · Billboard Hot 100

I Wish

Stevie Wonder

Entered Dec 4, 1976 · peaked at #1 on Jan 22, 1977 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 26, 1977

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 10 wk
Record Power
38.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
December 1976 – March 1977

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
Stevie Wonderprimary100%38.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 22, 1977 on the timeline →
  1. #1I WishStevie Wonder
  2. #2Car WashRose Royce
  3. #3You Make Me Feel Like DancingLeo Sayer
  4. #4DazzBrick
  5. #5You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis & Jr.
  6. #6Hot LineThe Sylvers
  7. #7New Kid In TownEagles
  8. #8After The LovinEngelbert Humperdinck
  9. #9Blinded By The LightManfred Mann's Earth Band
  10. #10Torn Between Two LoversMary Macgregor

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