Songs · UK Singles Chart

Happy Birthday

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Entered Sep 20, 1981 · peaked at #2 on Oct 25, 1981 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 10, 1982

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Record Power
25.5
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
17
September 1981 – January 1982

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
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The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 25, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1It's My PartyDave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
  2. #2Happy BirthdayAltered Images
  3. #3O SupermanLaurie Anderson
  4. #4Absolute BeginnersThe Jam
  5. #5The Birdie Song (Birdie Dance)Tweets
  6. #6Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe Police
  7. #7Thunder in the MountainsToyah
  8. #8A Good Year for the RosesElvis Costello
  9. #9Labelled with LoveSqueeze
  10. #10It's RainingShakin' Stevens

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