Songs · UK Singles Chart

Crying

Don McLean

Entered May 4, 1980 · peaked at #1 on Jun 15, 1980 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 3, 1980

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 14 wk
Record Power
31.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
May 1980 – August 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
Don McLeanprimary100%31.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 15, 1980 on the timeline →
  1. #1CryingDon McLean
  2. #2Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)Mash
  3. #3FunkytownLipps Inc
  4. #4Back Together AgainRoberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
  5. #5No Doubt About ItHot Chocolate
  6. #6Everybody's Got To Learn SometimeThe Korgis
  7. #7Behind the GrooveTeena Marie
  8. #8Let's Get SeriousJermaine Jackson
  9. #9Over YouRoxy Music
  10. #10You Gave Me LoveCrown Heights Affair

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