Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Rapper's Delight

Sugarhill Gang

Entered Nov 10, 1979 · peaked at #36 on Jan 12, 1980 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 26, 1980

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UK Singles Chart · #3, 14 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #36, 12 wk
Record Power
6.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
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 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
Sugarhill Gangprimary100%6.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 12, 1980 on the timeline →
  1. #1Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
  2. #2Rock With YouMichael Jackson
  3. #3Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille
  4. #4Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
  5. #5Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
  6. #6StillCommodores
  7. #7Coward Of The CountyKenny Rogers
  8. #8Ladies NightKool & The Gang
  9. #9We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard
  10. #10BabeStyx

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Rapper's Delight — Sugarhill Gang · ChartReign