Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Stand So Close To Me

The Police

Entered Feb 7, 1981 · peaked at #10 on Apr 11, 1981 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 6, 1981

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Billboard Hot 100 · #10, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 10 wk
Record Power
25.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
February 1981 – June 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
The Policeprimary100%26.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 11, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Kiss On My ListDaryl Hall John Oates
  2. #2RaptureBlondie
  3. #3The Best Of TimesStyx
  4. #4WomanJohn Lennon
  5. #5Just The Two Of UsGrover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers
  6. #6Morning Train (Nine To Five)Sheena Easton
  7. #7CryingDon McLean
  8. #8While You See A ChanceSteve Winwood
  9. #9Keep On Loving YouREO Speedwagon
  10. #10Don't Stand So Close To MeThe Police

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