Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Smooth Operator

Sade

Entered Mar 2, 1985 · peaked at #5 on May 18, 1985 · 20 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 13, 1985

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 20 wkUK Singles Chart · #19, 10 wk
Record Power
30.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
20
March 1985 – July 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 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
Sadeprimary100%30.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 18, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't You (Forget About Me)Simple Minds
  2. #2Crazy For YouMadonna
  3. #3One Night In BangkokMurray Head
  4. #4Everything She WantsWham!
  5. #5Smooth OperatorSade
  6. #6Some Like It HotThe Power Station
  7. #7Rhythm Of The NightDebarge
  8. #8We Are The WorldUSA For Africa
  9. #9Everybody Wants To Rule The WorldTears For Fears
  10. #10Axel FHarold Faltermeyer

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