Songs · UK Singles Chart

My Best Friend's Girl

The Cars

Entered Nov 5, 1978 · peaked at #3 on Nov 19, 1978 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 7, 1979

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UK Singles Chart · #3, 10 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #35, 15 wk
Record Power
18.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
November 1978 – January 1979

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%19.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 19, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1Rat TrapThe Boomtown Rats
  2. #2Hopelessly Devoted To YouOlivia Newton-John
  3. #3My Best Friend's GirlThe Cars
  4. #4Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?Rod Stewart
  5. #5Pretty Little Angel EyesShowaddywaddy
  6. #6DarlinFrankie Miller
  7. #7Summer NightsJohn Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
  8. #8Instant ReplayDan Hartman
  9. #9Hanging on the TelephoneBlondie
  10. #10SandyJohn Travolta

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