Songs · UK Singles Chart

Getting a Drag

Lynsey de Paul

Entered Nov 26, 1972 · peaked at #18 on Dec 31, 1972 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 14, 1973

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Record Power
12.0
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
8
November 1972 – January 1973

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
Lynsey de Paulprimary100%12.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 31, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1Long Haired Lover from LiverpoolLittle Jimmy Osmond
  2. #2Solid Gold Easy ActionT. Rex
  3. #3Crazy HorsesThe Osmonds
  4. #4The Jean GenieDavid Bowie
  5. #5Gudbuy T' JaneSlade
  6. #6Happy Xmas (War Is Over)John, Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band & The Harlem Community Choir
  7. #7My Ding-A-LingChuck Berry
  8. #8Shotgun Wedding {1972}Roy "C
  9. #9Nights In White SatinThe Moody Blues
  10. #10Hi Hi Hi/C.MoonWings

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