Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Baby, What A Big Surprise

Chicago

Entered Sep 24, 1977 · peaked at #4 on Dec 3, 1977 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 14, 1978

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #41, 3 wk
Record Power
30.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
September 1977 – January 1978

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
Chicagoprimary100%31.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 3, 1977 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Light Up My LifeDebby Boone
  2. #2Don't It Make My Brown Eyes BlueCrystal Gayle
  3. #3How Deep Is Your LoveBee Gees
  4. #4Baby, What A Big SurpriseChicago
  5. #5Blue BayouLinda Ronstadt
  6. #6Heaven On The 7th FloorPaul Nicholas
  7. #7We're All AloneRita Coolidge
  8. #8Boogie NightsHeatwave
  9. #9It's So EasyLinda Ronstadt
  10. #10(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love AgainLtd.

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