Songs · UK Singles Chart

Stop the Cavalry

Jona Lewie

Entered Nov 23, 1980 · peaked at #3 on Dec 7, 1980 · 42 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 27, 2024

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Record Power
35.5
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
42
November 1980 – December 2024

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
Jona Lewieprimary100%36.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 7, 1980 on the timeline →
  1. #1Super TrouperABBA
  2. #2There's No One Quite Like GrandmaSt. Winifred's School Choir
  3. #3Stop the CavalryJona Lewie
  4. #4EmbarrassmentMadness
  5. #5Banana RepublicThe Boomtown Rats
  6. #6To Cut a Long Story ShortSpandau Ballet
  7. #7The Tide Is HighBlondie
  8. #8Do You Feel My Love?Eddy Grant
  9. #9De Do Do Do, De Da Da DaThe Police
  10. #10Runaway BoysStray Cats

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