Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears

Entered Mar 16, 1985 · peaked at #1 on Jun 8, 1985 · 24 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 24, 1985

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 24 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 56 wk
Record Power
40.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
24
March 1985 – August 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
Tears For Fearsprimary100%39.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 8, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1Everybody Wants To Rule The WorldTears For Fears
  2. #2Everything She WantsWham!
  3. #3Axel FHarold Faltermeyer
  4. #4SuddenlyBilly Ocean
  5. #5HeavenBryan Adams
  6. #6Things Can Only Get BetterHoward Jones
  7. #7In My HouseMary Jane Girls
  8. #8Don't You (Forget About Me)Simple Minds
  9. #9FreshKool & The Gang
  10. #10Walking On SunshineKatrina And The Waves

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