Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Walk Of Life

Dire Straits

Entered Nov 2, 1985 · peaked at #7 on Jan 25, 1986 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 22, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #7, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 12 wk
Record Power
32.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
November 1985 – March 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
Dire Straitsprimary100%31.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 25, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1That's What Friends Are ForDionne & Friends
  2. #2Say You, Say MeLionel Richie
  3. #3Burning HeartSurvivor
  4. #4Talk To MeStevie Nicks
  5. #5I'm Your ManWham!
  6. #6My HometownBruce Springsteen
  7. #7Walk Of LifeDire Straits
  8. #8I Miss YouKlymaxx
  9. #9Party All The TimeEddie Murphy
  10. #10Spies Like UsPaul McCartney

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