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I Wanna Be A Cowboy

Boys Don't Cry

Entered Jun 1, 1986 · 4 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 6, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #12, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #77, 4 wk
Record Power
0.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#77
1 week there · Jun 8, 1986
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
4
June 1986 – July 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 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
Boys Don't Cryprimary100%0.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 8, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Spirit In The SkyDoctor And The Medics
  2. #2Holding Back the Years {1986}Simply Red
  3. #3I Can't WaitNu Shooz
  4. #4SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  5. #5Addicted To LoveRobert Palmer
  6. #6Can't Get by Without You (the Second Decade Remix)The Real Thing
  7. #7Set Me FreeJaki Graham
  8. #8Everybody Wants to Run the WorldTears For Fears
  9. #9On My OwnPatti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
  10. #10Vienna CallingFalco

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