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Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)

Kool & The Gang

Entered Oct 17, 1981 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 6, 1982

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Billboard Hot 100 · #17, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #29, 7 wk
Record Power
22.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#17
3 weeks there · first Dec 26, 1981
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
October 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 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
Kool & The Gangprimary100%22.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 26, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1PhysicalOlivia Newton-John
  2. #2Waiting For A Girl Like YouForeigner
  3. #3Let's GrooveEarth, Wind & Fire
  4. #4I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)Daryl Hall and John Oates
  5. #5Young TurksRod Stewart
  6. #6Harden My HeartQuarterflash
  7. #7Why Do Fools Fall In LoveDiana Ross
  8. #8Leather And LaceStevie Nicks & Don Henley
  9. #9Don't Stop BelievinJourney
  10. #10TroubleLindsey Buckingham

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