Songs · UK Singles Chart

A Whiter Shade of Pale {1972}

Procol Harum

Entered Apr 16, 1972 · peaked at #13 on Jun 4, 1972 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 9, 1972

Record Power
18.4
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
13
April 1972 – July 1972

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
Procol Harumprimary100%18.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 4, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1Metal GuruT. Rex
  2. #2VincentDon McLean
  3. #3Lady EleanorLindisfarne
  4. #4Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?Hurricane Smith
  5. #5Rocket ManElton John
  6. #6At the Club/Saturday Night at the Movies {1972}The Drifters
  7. #7Could It Be Forever/CherishDavid Cassidy
  8. #8California ManThe Move
  9. #9Sister JaneNew World
  10. #10Rockin' RobinMichael Jackson