Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Walk Like An Egyptian

The Bangles

Entered Sep 27, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Dec 20, 1986 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 28, 1987

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 18 wk
Record Power
42.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
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
The Banglesprimary100%42.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 20, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Walk Like An EgyptianThe Bangles
  2. #2The Way It IsBruce Hornsby & The Range
  3. #3Everybody Have Fun TonightWang Chung
  4. #4NotoriousDuran Duran
  5. #5Shake You DownGregory Abbott
  6. #6To Be A LoverBilly Idol
  7. #7Hip To Be SquareHuey Lewis & The News
  8. #8C'est La VieRobbie Nevil
  9. #9Stand By MeBen E. King
  10. #10The Next Time I FallPeter Cetera & Amy Grant

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