Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Break My Stride

Matthew Wilder

Entered Sep 17, 1983 · peaked at #5 on Jan 21, 1984 · 29 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 31, 1984

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 29 wkUK Singles Chart · #4, 13 wk
Record Power
39.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
29
September 1983 – March 1984

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
Matthew Wilderprimary100%39.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 21, 1984 on the timeline →
  1. #1Owner Of A Lonely HeartYes
  2. #2Say Say SayPaul McCartney & Michael Jackson
  3. #3Karma ChameleonCulture Club
  4. #4Talking In Your SleepThe Romantics
  5. #5Break My StrideMatthew Wilder
  6. #6I Guess That's Why They Call It The BluesElton John
  7. #7Twist Of FateOlivia Newton-John
  8. #8JoannaKool & The Gang
  9. #9Running With The NightLionel Richie
  10. #10Say It Isn't SoDaryl Hall John Oates

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