Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Ebony And Ivory

Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Entered Apr 10, 1982 · peaked at #1 on May 15, 1982 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 14, 1982

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 10 wk
Record Power
46.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
7
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
12
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
April 1982 – August 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
Paul McCartneyprimary50%22.8
Stevie Wonderprimary50%21.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 15, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1Ebony And IvoryPaul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
  2. #2Chariots Of Fire - TitlesVangelis
  3. #3Don't Talk To StrangersRick Springfield
  4. #4I Love Rock 'N RollJoan Jett & the Blackhearts
  5. #5867-5309/jennyTommy Tutone
  6. #6I've Never Been To MeCharlene
  7. #765 Love AffairPaul Davis
  8. #8Freeze-frameThe J. Geils Band
  9. #9The Other WomanRay Parker Jr.
  10. #10Did It In A MinuteDaryl Hall John Oates

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