Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Better Things

The Kinks

Entered Nov 28, 1981 · peaked at #92 on Jan 9, 1982 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 16, 1982

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UK Singles Chart · #46, 5 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #92, 8 wk
Record Power
1.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
November 1981 – January 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
The Kinksprimary100%1.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 9, 1982 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 John Oates
  5. #5Young TurksRod Stewart
  6. #6Harden My HeartQuarterflash
  7. #7Leather And LaceStevie Nicks & Don Henley
  8. #8CenterfoldThe J. Geils Band
  9. #9Turn Your Love AroundGeorge Benson
  10. #10TroubleLindsey Buckingham

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Better Things — The Kinks · ChartReign