Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Sultans Of Swing

Dire Straits

Entered Feb 10, 1979 · peaked at #4 on Apr 7, 1979 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen May 19, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 26 wk
Record Power
29.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
February 1979 – May 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
Dire Straitsprimary100%30.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 7, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Will SurviveGloria Gaynor
  2. #2What A Fool BelievesThe Doobie Brothers
  3. #3TragedyBee Gees
  4. #4Sultans Of SwingDire Straits
  5. #5Shake Your Groove ThingPeaches & Herb
  6. #6Music Box DancerFrank Mills
  7. #7Knock On WoodAmii Stewart
  8. #8Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?Rod Stewart
  9. #9Heart Of GlassBlondie
  10. #10LadyLittle River Band

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