Songs · UK Singles Chart

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

The Partridge Family

Entered Jul 2, 1972 · peaked at #3 on Aug 6, 1972 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 24, 1972

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Record Power
29.6
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
13
July 1972 – September 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
The Partridge Familyprimary100%29.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 6, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1School's OutAlice Cooper
  2. #2Sea Side ShuffleTerry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
  3. #3Breaking Up Is Hard to DoThe Partridge Family
  4. #4Puppy LoveDonny Osmond
  5. #5Sylvia's MotherDr. Hook And The Medicine Show
  6. #6PopcornHot Butter
  7. #7Silver MachineHawkwind
  8. #8I Can See Clearly NowJohnny Nash
  9. #9Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2Gary Glitter
  10. #10CirclesThe New Seekers

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