Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Crying

Don McLean

Entered Jan 24, 1981 · peaked at #5 on Mar 21, 1981 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen May 23, 1981

Apple Music
Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 14 wk
Record Power
35.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
January 1981 – May 1981

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
Don McLeanprimary100%36.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 21, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Keep On Loving YouREO Speedwagon
  2. #2WomanJohn Lennon
  3. #3The Best Of TimesStyx
  4. #49 To 5Dolly Parton
  5. #5CryingDon McLean
  6. #6RaptureBlondie
  7. #7Hello AgainNeil Diamond
  8. #8The Winner Takes It AllABBA
  9. #9I Love A Rainy NightEddie Rabbitt
  10. #10What Kind Of FoolBarbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.