Songs · UK Singles Chart
What a Waste
Entered Apr 23, 1978 · peaked at #9 on May 28, 1978 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 9, 1978
- Record Power
- 18.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 1
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on chart
- 12
- April 1978 – July 1978
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.
| Artist | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Dury | primary | 100% | 18.0 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See May 28, 1978 on the timeline →- #1Rivers of Babylon/Brown Girl in the RingBoney M
- #2The Boy from New York CityDarts
- #3Night FeverBee Gees
- #4If I Can't Have YouYvonne Elliman
- #5Love Is In The AirJohn Paul Young
- #6You're The One That I WantJohn Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
- #7Because The NightPatti Smith Group
- #8More Than A WomanTavares
- #9What a WasteIan Dury
- #10Ca Plane Pour MoiPlastic Bertrand
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