Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Africa

Toto

Entered Oct 30, 1982 · peaked at #1 on Feb 5, 1983 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 19, 1983

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 12 wk
Record Power
38.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
October 1982 – March 1983

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
Totoprimary100%38.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 5, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1AfricaToto
  2. #2Down UnderMen At Work
  3. #3Sexual HealingMarvin Gaye
  4. #4Baby, Come To MePatti Austin A & James Ingram
  5. #5Shame On The MoonBob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
  6. #6ManeaterDaryl Hall John Oates
  7. #7Dirty LaundryDon Henley
  8. #8Rock The CasbahThe Clash
  9. #9You And IEddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle
  10. #10You Can't Hurry LovePhil Collins

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