Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Word Up

Cameo

Entered Sep 13, 1986 · peaked at #6 on Nov 22, 1986 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 31, 1987

Apple Music
Billboard Hot 100 · #6, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 16 wk
Record Power
32.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
September 1986 – January 1987

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
Cameoprimary100%32.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 22, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1HumanThe Human League
  2. #2AmandaBoston
  3. #3True BlueMadonna
  4. #4You Give Love A Bad NameBon Jovi
  5. #5Take Me Home TonightEddie Money
  6. #6Word UpCameo
  7. #7The Next Time I FallPeter Cetera & Amy Grant
  8. #8Hip To Be SquareHuey Lewis & The News
  9. #9The Way It IsBruce Hornsby & The Range
  10. #10Love Will Conquer AllLionel Richie

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.