Songs · UK Singles Chart

Sail On

Commodores

Entered Aug 19, 1979 · peaked at #8 on Sep 23, 1979 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 21, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 10 wk
Record Power
15.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
August 1979 – October 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
Commodoresprimary100%15.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 23, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1Message In A BottleThe Police
  2. #2CarsGary Numan
  3. #3If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against MeBellamy Brothers
  4. #4Love's Gotta Hold on MeDollar
  5. #5Don't Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra
  6. #6We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard
  7. #7DreamingBlondie
  8. #8Sail OnCommodores
  9. #9Street LifeThe Crusaders
  10. #10Strut Your Funky StuffFrantique

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Sail On — Commodores · ChartReign