Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Perfect Way

Scritti Politti

Entered Sep 7, 1985 · peaked at #11 on Dec 21, 1985 · 25 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 22, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #11, 25 wkUK Singles Chart · #48, 5 wk
Record Power
28.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
25
September 1985 – February 1986

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
Scritti Polittiprimary100%28.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 21, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1Say You, Say MeLionel Richie
  2. #2Broken WingsMr. Mister
  3. #3Party All The TimeEddie Murphy
  4. #4Alive & KickingSimple Minds
  5. #5Separate LivesPhil Collins & Marilyn Martin
  6. #6Election DayArcadia
  7. #7I Miss YouKlymaxx
  8. #8That's What Friends Are ForDionne & Friends
  9. #9Small TownJohn Mellencamp
  10. #10Sleeping BagZZ Top

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