Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Diary of Horace Wimp

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Jul 15, 1979 · peaked at #8 on Aug 5, 1979 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 9, 1979

Apple Music
Record Power
15.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
July 1979 – September 1979

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
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%14.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 5, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Don't Like MondaysThe Boomtown Rats
  2. #2We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard
  3. #3Angeleyes/Voulez-VousABBA
  4. #4Can't Stand Losing YouThe Police
  5. #5WantedThe Dooleys
  6. #6Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3Ian Dury and the Blockheads
  7. #7Hersham BoysSham 69
  8. #8The Diary of Horace WimpElectric Light Orchestra
  9. #9Girls TalkDave Edmunds
  10. #10Born To Be AlivePatrick Hernandez

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.