Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Lay Down Sally

Eric Clapton

Entered Jan 7, 1978 · peaked at #3 on Apr 1, 1978 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 10, 1978

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #39, 6 wk
Record Power
47.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
11
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
January 1978 – June 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
Eric Claptonprimary100%47.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 1, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1Night FeverBee Gees
  2. #2Stayin' AliveBee Gees
  3. #3Lay Down SallyEric Clapton
  4. #4Can't Smile Without YouBarry Manilow
  5. #5EmotionSamantha Sang
  6. #6If I Can't Have YouYvonne Elliman
  7. #7I Go CrazyPaul Davis
  8. #8(Love Is) Thicker Than WaterAndy Gibb
  9. #9Thunder IslandJay Ferguson
  10. #10Dust In The WindKansas

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