Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Babe

Styx

Entered Oct 6, 1979 · peaked at #1 on Dec 8, 1979 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 9, 1980

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 10 wk
Record Power
42.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
11
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
October 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
Styxprimary100%42.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 8, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1BabeStyx
  2. #2No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
  3. #3StillCommodores
  4. #4Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
  5. #5Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
  6. #6Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
  7. #7Heartache TonightEagles
  8. #8You're Only LonelyJ.D. Souther
  9. #9ShipsBarry Manilow
  10. #10Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille

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