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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Desert Moon

Dennis DeYoung

Entered Sep 8, 1984 · 22 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 2, 1985

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Record Power
24.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#10
1 week there · Nov 10, 1984
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
22
September 1984 – February 1985

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
Dennis DeYoungprimary100%25.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 10, 1984 on the timeline →
  1. #1Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)Billy Ocean
  2. #2I Just Called To Say I Love YouStevie Wonder
  3. #3Purple RainPrince And The Revolution
  4. #4Wake Me Up Before You Go-GoWham!
  5. #5I Feel For YouChaka Khan
  6. #6Out of TouchDaryl Hall and John Oates
  7. #7Better Be Good To MeTina Turner
  8. #8Blue JeanDavid Bowie
  9. #9Hard Habit To BreakChicago
  10. #10Desert MoonDennis DeYoung

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