Songs · Billboard Hot 100
- Record Power
- 6.6
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
- Peak
- #36
- 1 week there · Jan 12, 1980
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on chart
- 12
- November 1979 – January 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 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.
| Artist | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarhill Gang | primary | 100% | 6.7 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jan 12, 1980 on the timeline →- #1Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
- #2Rock With YouMichael Jackson
- #3Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille
- #4Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
- #5Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
- #6StillCommodores
- #7Coward Of The CountyKenny Rogers
- #8Ladies NightKool & The Gang
- #9We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard
- #10BabeStyx
The #1 songs of 1980
1980 in music →Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980.
- Please Don't Go · KC And The Sunshine Band
- Escape (The Pina Colada Song) · Rupert Holmes
- Rock With You · Michael Jackson
- Do That To Me One More Time · Captain & Tennille
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Queen
- Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) · Pink Floyd
- Call Me · Blondie
- Funkytown · Lipps Inc
- Coming Up (Live At Glasgow) · Wings
- It's Still Rock And Roll To Me · Billy Joel
- Magic · Olivia Newton-John
- Sailing · Christopher Cross
- Upside Down · Diana Ross
- Another One Bites The Dust · Queen
- Woman In Love · Barbra Streisand
- Lady · Kenny Rogers
- (Just Like) Starting Over · John Lennon
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