Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Video Killed The Radio Star

The Buggles

Entered Nov 10, 1979 · peaked at #40 on Dec 15, 1979 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 12, 1980

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #40, 10 wk
Record Power
5.3
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
10
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
The Bugglesprimary100%5.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 15, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1BabeStyx
  2. #2StillCommodores
  3. #3Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
  4. #4Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
  5. #5Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
  6. #6No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
  7. #7You're Only LonelyJ.D. Souther
  8. #8Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille
  9. #9Heartache TonightEagles
  10. #10Take The Long Way HomeSupertramp

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