Songs · UK Singles Chart

Like Clockwork

The Boomtown Rats

Entered Jun 11, 1978 · peaked at #6 on Jul 9, 1978 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 3, 1978

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Record Power
24.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
June 1978 – September 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.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
The Boomtown Ratsprimary100%24.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 9, 1978 on the timeline →
  1. #1You're The One That I WantJohn Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
  2. #2The Smurf SongFather Abraham and the Smurfs
  3. #3Dancin' in the CityMarshall Hain
  4. #4Annie's SongJames Galway
  5. #5AirportThe Motors
  6. #6Like ClockworkThe Boomtown Rats
  7. #7No-One Is Innocent/My WayThe Sex Pistols
  8. #8A Little Bit of SoapShowaddywaddy
  9. #9Man with the Child in His EyesKate Bush
  10. #10Miss YouThe Rolling Stones

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