Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Hold On Tight

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Jul 25, 1981 · peaked at #10 on Oct 3, 1981 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 28, 1981

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Billboard Hot 100 · #10, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #4, 12 wk
Record Power
27.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
July 1981 – November 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
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%27.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 3, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Endless LoveDiana Ross & Lionel Richie
  2. #2Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)Christopher Cross
  3. #3Stop Draggin' My Heart AroundStevie Nicks & Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
  4. #4Who's Crying NowJourney
  5. #5(There's) No Gettin' Over MeRonnie Milsap
  6. #6Queen Of HeartsJuice Newton
  7. #7Step By StepEddie Rabbitt
  8. #8UrgentForeigner
  9. #9Start Me UpThe Rolling Stones
  10. #10Hold On TightElectric Light Orchestra

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