Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Get Me Wrong

Pretenders

Entered Oct 11, 1986 · peaked at #10 on Dec 27, 1986 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 7, 1987

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Billboard Hot 100 · #10, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #10, 10 wk
Record Power
25.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
October 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
Pretendersprimary100%25.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 27, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Walk Like An EgyptianThe Bangles
  2. #2Everybody Have Fun TonightWang Chung
  3. #3NotoriousDuran Duran
  4. #4Shake You DownGregory Abbott
  5. #5The Way It IsBruce Hornsby & The Range
  6. #6C'est La VieRobbie Nevil
  7. #7ControlJanet Jackson
  8. #8WarBruce Springsteen
  9. #9Stand By MeBen E. King
  10. #10Don't Get Me WrongPretenders

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