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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Shine A Little Love

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered May 19, 1979 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 25, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #8, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 10 wk
Record Power
25.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#8
2 weeks there · first Jul 21, 1979
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
May 1979 – August 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 it 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
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%25.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 21, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1Bad GirlsDonna Summer
  2. #2Ring My BellAnita Ward
  3. #3Hot StuffDonna Summer
  4. #4Good TimesChic
  5. #5Makin' ItDavid Naughton
  6. #6Boogie WonderlandEarth, Wind & Fire & The Emotions
  7. #7I Want You To Want MeCheap Trick
  8. #8Shine A Little LoveElectric Light Orchestra
  9. #9GoldJohn Stewart
  10. #10She Believes In MeKenny Rogers

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