Songs · UK Singles Chart

Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Entered Jul 29, 1979 · peaked at #3 on Aug 12, 1979 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 16, 1979

Record Power
16.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
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
Ian Dury and the Blockheadsprimary100%16.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 12, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Don't Like MondaysThe Boomtown Rats
  2. #2We Don't Talk AnymoreCliff Richard
  3. #3Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3Ian Dury and the Blockheads
  4. #4After The Love Has GoneEarth, Wind & Fire
  5. #5Angeleyes/Voulez-VousABBA
  6. #6Hersham BoysSham 69
  7. #7Can't Stand Losing YouThe Police
  8. #8WantedThe Dooleys
  9. #9Duke of EarlDarts
  10. #10The Diary of Horace WimpElectric Light Orchestra
Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 — Ian Dury and the Blockheads · ChartReign