Songs · UK Singles Chart

Because The Night

Patti Smith Group

Entered Apr 23, 1978 · peaked at #5 on May 21, 1978 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 9, 1978

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UK Singles Chart · #5, 12 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #13, 18 wk
Record Power
22.5
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
12
April 1978 – July 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
Patti Smith Groupprimary100%22.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 21, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1Rivers of Babylon/Brown Girl in the RingBoney M
  2. #2Night FeverBee Gees
  3. #3The Boy from New York CityDarts
  4. #4If I Can't Have YouYvonne Elliman
  5. #5Because The NightPatti Smith Group
  6. #6Too Much, Too Little, Too LateJohnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  7. #7More Than A WomanTavares
  8. #8Love Is In The AirJohn Paul Young
  9. #9Do It Do It AgainRaffaella Carra
  10. #10(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence DearBlondie

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