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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me

Paula Abdul

Entered Nov 12, 1988 · 25 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 3, 1990

Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 25 wkUK Singles Chart · #74, 4 wk
Record Power
34.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#3
1 week there · Dec 2, 1989
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
25
November 1988 – February 1990

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
Paula Abdulprimary100%34.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 2, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1Blame It On The RainMilli Vanilli
  2. #2We Didn't Start The FireBilly Joel
  3. #3(It's Just) The Way That You Love MePaula Abdul
  4. #4AngeliaRichard Marx
  5. #5Love ShackThe B-52s
  6. #6Another Day In ParadisePhil Collins
  7. #7Back To LifeSoul II Soul
  8. #8Don't Know MuchLinda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville
  9. #9When I See You SmileBad English
  10. #10PoisonAlice Cooper

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