We're #2! We're #2!

Picture sleeve from Foreigner's "Waiting For A Girl Like You" single

In November of 1981, Foreigner's ballad "Waiting For A Girl Like You" reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.  It would stay at the #2 spot for 10 consecutive weeks, being held at bay for 9 weeks by Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", and for a final week by "I Can't Go For That" by Daryl Hall & John Oates.  No song before or since has spent so many weeks at #2 without ever reaching the top spot.

It wasn't Foreigner's first experience with the #2 spot; three years prior, in 1978, their "Double Vision" spent two weeks at #2 (without ever reaching #1).  Donna Summer's memorable "MacArthur Park" kept it 'out in the rain' for those weeks.

When Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" hit #2 in January of 1985, I'm sure the band was prepared for another near-miss.  Fortunately for them, the song reached #1 the following week, and stay there for two weeks.