Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Message In A Bottle

The Police

Entered Nov 24, 1979 · peaked at #74 on Dec 22, 1979 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 5, 1980

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #74, 7 wk
Record Power
1.6
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
7
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 Policeprimary100%1.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 22, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Rupert Holmes
  2. #2Please Don't GoKC And The Sunshine Band
  3. #3BabeStyx
  4. #4Send One Your LoveStevie Wonder
  5. #5StillCommodores
  6. #6Do That To Me One More TimeCaptain & Tennille
  7. #7You're Only LonelyJ.D. Souther
  8. #8No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
  9. #9Ladies NightKool & The Gang
  10. #10Take The Long Way HomeSupertramp

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Message In A Bottle — The Police · ChartReign