Songs · UK Singles Chart

You Can Get It If You Really Want

Desmond Dekker

Entered Aug 16, 1970 · peaked at #2 on Sep 27, 1970 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 22, 1970

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Record Power
32.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
August 1970 – November 1970

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
Desmond Dekkerprimary100%32.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 27, 1970 on the timeline →
  1. #1Band Of GoldFreda Payne
  2. #2You Can Get It If You Really WantDesmond Dekker
  3. #3Montego BayBobby Bloom
  4. #4Tears of a ClownSmokey Robinson & The Miracles
  5. #5Black NightDeep Purple
  6. #6Give Me Just a Little More TimeChairmen of the Board
  7. #7Which Way You Goin' Billy? ft Susan JacksThe Poppy Family feat. Susan Jacks
  8. #8ParanoidBlack Sabbath
  9. #9The Wonder of YouElvis Presley
  10. #10Love Is LifeHot Chocolate

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