Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Please Don't Go

KC And The Sunshine Band

Entered Aug 25, 1979 · peaked at #1 on Jan 5, 1980 · 26 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 16, 1980

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 26 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 12 wk
Record Power
48.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
11
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
26
August 1979 – February 1980

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
KC And The Sunshine Bandprimary100%49.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 5, 1980 on the timeline →
  1. #1Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
  2. #2Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
  3. #3Rock With YouMichael Jackson
  4. #4Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
  5. #5Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille
  6. #6BabeStyx
  7. #7StillCommodores
  8. #8Coward Of The CountyKenny Rogers
  9. #9Ladies NightKool & The Gang
  10. #10We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard

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