Songs · Billboard Hot 100
A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)
Entered Mar 7, 1981 · 27 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 5, 1981
- Record Power
- 40.2
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
- Peak
- #4
- 2 weeks there · first Jun 20, 1981
- Top-ten weeks
- 6
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on chart
- 27
- March 1981 – September 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.
| Artist | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ray Parker Jr. | primary | 50% | 20.1 |
| Raydio | primary | 50% | 20.1 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jun 20, 1981 on the timeline →- #1MedleyStars On 45
- #2Bette Davis EyesKim Carnes
- #3SukiyakiA Taste Of Honey
- #4A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
- #5All Those Years AgoGeorge Harrison
- #6Being With YouSmokey Robinson
- #7The One That You LoveAir Supply
- #8AmericaNeil Diamond
- #9You Make My DreamsDaryl Hall and John Oates
- #10Jessie's GirlRick Springfield
The #1 songs of 1981
1981 in music →Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.
- (Just Like) Starting Over · John Lennon
- The Tide Is High · Blondie
- Celebration · Kool & The Gang
- 9 To 5 · Dolly Parton
- I Love A Rainy Night · Eddie Rabbitt
- Keep On Loving You · REO Speedwagon
- Rapture · Blondie
- KISS on My List · Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Morning Train (Nine To Five) · Sheena Easton
- Bette Davis Eyes · Kim Carnes
- Medley · Stars On 45
- The One That You Love · Air Supply
- Jessie's Girl · Rick Springfield
- Endless Love · Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
- Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) · Christopher Cross
- Private Eyes · Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Physical · Olivia Newton-John
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