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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Hand To Hold On To

John Mellencamp

Entered Nov 6, 1982 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 5, 1983

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Billboard Hot 100 · #19, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #89, 2 wk
Record Power
19.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#19
2 weeks there · first Jan 22, 1983
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
November 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 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
John Mellencampprimary100%—

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 22, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1Down UnderMen At Work
  2. #2The Girl Is MineMichael Jackson & Paul McCartney
  3. #3Dirty LaundryDon Henley
  4. #4Sexual HealingMarvin Gaye
  5. #5AfricaToto
  6. #6ManeaterDaryl Hall and John Oates
  7. #7Baby, Come To MePatti Austin A & James Ingram
  8. #8Rock The CasbahThe Clash
  9. #9MickeyToni Basil
  10. #10HeartbreakerDionne Warwick

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