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Lady Writer

Dire Straits

Entered Jul 28, 1979 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 8, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #45, 7 wkUK Singles Chart · #51, 6 wk
Record Power
3.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#45
2 weeks there · first Aug 25, 1979
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
7
July 1979 – September 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
Dire Straitsprimary100%3.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 25, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1My SharonaThe Knack
  2. #2Good TimesChic
  3. #3The Main Event/FightBarbra Streisand
  4. #4After The Love Has GoneEarth, Wind & Fire
  5. #5Bad GirlsDonna Summer
  6. #6Don't Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra
  7. #7The Devil Went Down To GeorgiaThe Charlie Daniels Band
  8. #8Lead Me OnMaxine Nightingale
  9. #9Mama Can't Buy You LoveElton John
  10. #10Sad EyesRobert John

The #1 songs of 1979

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Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979.

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