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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Stop The Music

Yarbrough & Peoples

Entered Feb 7, 1981 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen May 23, 1981

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Record Power
14.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#19
2 weeks there · first Apr 11, 1981
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
February 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 it 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
Yarbrough & Peoplesprimary100%14.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 11, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1KISS on My ListDaryl Hall and 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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