Songs · UK Singles Chart

Waiting For A Girl Like You

Foreigner

Entered Dec 6, 1981 · peaked at #8 on Jan 17, 1982 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 28, 1982

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 13 wk
Record Power
22.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
December 1981 – February 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%22.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 17, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Land of Make BelieveBucks Fizz
  2. #2The Model/Computer LoveKraftwerk
  3. #3Oh JulieShakin' Stevens
  4. #4Get Down On ItKool & The Gang
  5. #5Don't You Want MeThe Human League
  6. #6I'll Find My Way HomeJon & Vangelis
  7. #7Dead Ringer for LoveMeat Loaf
  8. #8Waiting For A Girl Like YouForeigner
  9. #9Being BoiledThe Human League
  10. #10I Could Be HappyAltered Images

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