Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Be Cruel

Bobby Brown

Entered Jul 23, 1988 · peaked at #8 on Oct 15, 1988 · 26 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 14, 1989

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Billboard Hot 100 · #8, 26 wkUK Singles Chart · #13, 16 wk
Record Power
29.2
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
26
July 1988 – January 1989

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
Bobby Brownprimary100%28.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 15, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1Red Red WineUB40
  2. #2Love BitesDef Leppard
  3. #3Groovy Kind Of LovePhil Collins
  4. #4Don't Be CruelCheap Trick
  5. #5What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)Information Society
  6. #6Don't Worry, Be Happy (From "Cocktail")Bobby McFerrin
  7. #7Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?Steve Winwood
  8. #8Don't Be CruelBobby Brown
  9. #9Wild, Wild WestThe Escape Club
  10. #10I Hate Myself For Loving YouJoan Jett & the Blackhearts

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