Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Flame

Cheap Trick

Entered Apr 9, 1988 · peaked at #1 on Jul 9, 1988 · 27 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 8, 1988

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 27 wkUK Singles Chart · #77, 9 wk
Record Power
37.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
27
April 1988 – October 1988

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
Cheap Trickprimary100%37.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 9, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1The FlameCheap Trick
  2. #2Mercedes BoyPebbles
  3. #3Pour Some Sugar On MeDef Leppard
  4. #4New SensationINXS
  5. #5Dirty DianaMichael Jackson
  6. #6Nothin' But A Good TimePoison
  7. #7Foolish BeatDebbie Gibson
  8. #8Hold On To The NightsRichard Marx
  9. #9The Valley RoadBruce Hornsby & The Range
  10. #10Nite And DayAl B. Sure!

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