Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Just What I Needed

The Cars

Entered Jun 17, 1978 · peaked at #27 on Sep 16, 1978 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 7, 1978

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UK Singles Chart · #17, 10 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #27, 17 wk
Record Power
12.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
June 1978 – October 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
The Carsprimary100%12.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 16, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1Boogie Oogie OogieA Taste Of Honey
  2. #2Three Times A LadyCommodores
  3. #3Hot BloodedForeigner
  4. #4Hopelessly Devoted To YouOlivia Newton-John
  5. #5Kiss You All OverExile
  6. #6An Everlasting LoveAndy Gibb
  7. #7Summer NightsJohn Travolta, Olivia Newton-John & Cast
  8. #8Don't Look BackBoston
  9. #9Got To Get You Into My LifeEarth, Wind & Fire
  10. #10ShameEvelyn "Champagne" King

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