Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Clapping Song

The Belle Stars

Entered Jul 11, 1982 · peaked at #11 on Aug 15, 1982 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 5, 1982

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Record Power
14.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
July 1982 – September 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
The Belle Starsprimary100%14.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 15, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1Come on EileenDexy's Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express
  2. #2Eye Of The TigerSurvivor
  3. #3FameIrene Cara
  4. #4Don't GoYazoo
  5. #5It Started with a KISSHot Chocolate
  6. #6Can't Take My Eyes Off YouBoystown Gang
  7. #7Strange Little GirlThe Stranglers
  8. #8Driving in My CarMadness
  9. #9Stool PigeonKid Creole & The Coconuts
  10. #10My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollipop)Bad Manners

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