Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Waiting For A Girl Like You

Foreigner

Entered Oct 10, 1981 · peaked at #2 on Nov 28, 1981 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 13, 1982

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 13 wk
Record Power
57.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
15
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
October 1981 – March 1982

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
Foreignerprimary100%57.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 28, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1PhysicalOlivia Newton-John
  2. #2Waiting For A Girl Like YouForeigner
  3. #3Private EyesDaryl Hall John Oates
  4. #4Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe Police
  5. #5Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)Air Supply
  6. #6Oh NoCommodores
  7. #7Start Me UpThe Rolling Stones
  8. #8Tryin' To Live My Life Without YouBob Seger
  9. #9Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)Christopher Cross
  10. #10Why Do Fools Fall In LoveDiana Ross

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Waiting For A Girl Like You — Foreigner · ChartReign