Songs · Billboard Hot 100

There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)

Billy Ocean

Entered Apr 19, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Jul 5, 1986 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 6, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #12, 13 wk
Record Power
36.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
April 1986 – September 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
Billy Oceanprimary100%36.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 5, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)Billy Ocean
  2. #2Holding Back The YearsSimply Red
  3. #3Who's Johnny ("Short Circuit" Theme)El DeBarge
  4. #4No One Is To BlameHoward Jones
  5. #5NastyJanet Jackson
  6. #6Invisible TouchGenesis
  7. #7Crush On YouThe Jets
  8. #8On My OwnPatti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
  9. #9SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  10. #10Danger ZoneKenny Loggins

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