Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Telephone Line

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Jun 11, 1977 · peaked at #7 on Sep 24, 1977 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 12, 1977

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Billboard Hot 100 · #7, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 10 wk
Record Power
34.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
June 1977 – November 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
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%35.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 24, 1977 on the timeline →
  1. #1Best Of My LoveThe Emotions
  2. #2Float OnThe Floaters
  3. #3Don't StopFleetwood Mac
  4. #4Keep It Comin' LoveKC And The Sunshine Band
  5. #5Strawberry Letter 23The Brothers Johnson
  6. #6I Just Want To Be Your EverythingAndy Gibb
  7. #7Telephone LineElectric Light Orchestra
  8. #8Star Wars Theme/Cantina BandMeco
  9. #9That's Rock 'N' RollShaun Cassidy
  10. #10Cold As IceForeigner

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