Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin

Michael Jackson

Entered May 28, 1983 · peaked at #5 on Jul 16, 1983 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 3, 1983

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #57, 3 wk
Record Power
29.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
May 1983 – September 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
Michael Jacksonprimary100%26.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 16, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1Every Breath You TakeThe Police
  2. #2Electric AvenueEddy Grant
  3. #3Flashdance...What A FeelingIrene Cara
  4. #4Never Gonna Let You GoSergio Mendes
  5. #5Wanna Be Startin' SomethinMichael Jackson
  6. #6Come DancingThe Kinks
  7. #7Too ShyKajagoogoo
  8. #8Our HouseMadness
  9. #9Is There Something I Should KnowDuran Duran
  10. #10Time (Clock Of The Heart)Culture Club

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