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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

Whitney Houston

Entered May 16, 1987 · 20 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 3, 2012

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 20 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 16 wk
Record Power
40.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#1
2 weeks there · first Jun 27, 1987
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
20
May 1987 – March 2012

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 it 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
Whitney Houstonprimary100%39.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 27, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)Whitney Houston
  2. #2Head To ToeLisa Lisa And Cult Jam
  3. #3In Too DeepGenesis
  4. #4AloneHeart
  5. #5AlwaysAtlantic Starr
  6. #6SongbirdKenny G
  7. #7Shakedown (From "Beverly Hills Cop II")Bob Seger
  8. #8DiamondsHerb Alpert
  9. #9Just To See HerSmokey Robinson
  10. #10Wanted Dead Or AliveBon Jovi

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