Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Cruel Summer

Bananarama

Entered Jul 21, 1984 · peaked at #9 on Sep 29, 1984 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 17, 1984

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Billboard Hot 100 · #9, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 10 wk
Record Power
24.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
July 1984 – November 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
Bananaramaprimary100%24.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 29, 1984 on the timeline →
  1. #1Let's Go CrazyPrince And The Revolution
  2. #2Missing YouJohn Waite
  3. #3DriveThe Cars
  4. #4She BopCyndi Lauper
  5. #5I Just Called To Say I Love YouStevie Wonder
  6. #6What's Love Got To Do With ItTina Turner
  7. #7The WarriorScandal feat. Patty Smyth
  8. #8The Glamorous LifeSheila E.
  9. #9Cruel SummerBananarama
  10. #10Cover MeBruce Springsteen

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