Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Paper In Fire

John Mellencamp

Entered Aug 15, 1987 · peaked at #9 on Oct 3, 1987 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 28, 1987

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Record Power
22.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
August 1987 – November 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
John Mellencampprimary100%22.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 3, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Didn't We Almost Have It AllWhitney Houston
  2. #2Here I Go AgainWhitesnake
  3. #3Lost In EmotionLisa Lisa And Cult Jam
  4. #4I Heard A Rumour (From "Disorderlies")Bananarama
  5. #5CarrieEurope
  6. #6U Got The LookPrince
  7. #7Who Will You Run ToHeart
  8. #8When Smokey SingsABC
  9. #9Paper In FireJohn Mellencamp
  10. #10One HeartbeatSmokey Robinson

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