Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Way It Is

Bruce Hornsby & The Range

Entered Sep 20, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Dec 13, 1986 · 22 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 14, 1987

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 22 wkUK Singles Chart · #15, 11 wk
Record Power
39.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
22
September 1986 – February 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
Bruce Hornsby & The Rangeprimary100%39.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 13, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Way It IsBruce Hornsby & The Range
  2. #2Walk Like An EgyptianThe Bangles
  3. #3Hip To Be SquareHuey Lewis & The News
  4. #4The Next Time I FallPeter Cetera & Amy Grant
  5. #5Everybody Have Fun TonightWang Chung
  6. #6You Give Love A Bad NameBon Jovi
  7. #7To Be A LoverBilly Idol
  8. #8NotoriousDuran Duran
  9. #9Shake You DownGregory Abbott
  10. #10Stand By MeBen E. King

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