Songs · UK Singles Chart

Don't Be Cruel

Bobby Brown

Entered Jul 24, 1988 · peaked at #13 on Apr 2, 1989 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen May 7, 1989

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Billboard Hot 100 · #8, 26 wkUK Singles Chart · #13, 16 wk
Record Power
16.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
July 1988 – May 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%16.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 2, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1Like A PrayerMadonna
  2. #2Too Many Broken HeartsJason Donovan
  3. #3Straight UpPaula Abdul
  4. #4This Time I Know It's For RealDonna Summer
  5. #5Eternal FlameThe Bangles
  6. #6Keep on Movin' ft Caron WheelerSoul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler
  7. #7Paradise CityGuns N' Roses
  8. #8I Beg Your PardonKon Kan
  9. #9I Haven't Stopped Dancing YetPat & Mick
  10. #10I'd Rather JackReynolds Girls

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