Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Tainted Love

Soft Cell

Entered Jan 16, 1982 · peaked at #8 on Jul 17, 1982 · 43 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 6, 1982

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 30 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #8, 43 wk
Record Power
38.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
43
January 1982 – November 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
Soft Cellprimary100%38.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 17, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't You Want MeThe Human League
  2. #2RosannaToto
  3. #3Hurts So GoodJohn Cougar
  4. #4Eye Of The TigerSurvivor
  5. #5Let It WhipDazz Band
  6. #6Hold MeFleetwood Mac
  7. #7Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On MeJuice Newton
  8. #8Tainted LoveSoft Cell
  9. #9Only The LonelyThe Motels
  10. #10Caught Up In You38 Special

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Tainted Love — Soft Cell · ChartReign