Songs · UK Singles Chart

Driving in My Car

Madness

Entered Jul 18, 1982 · peaked at #4 on Jul 25, 1982 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 5, 1982

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Record Power
18.6
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
8
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
Madnessprimary100%18.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 25, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1FameIrene Cara
  2. #2Come on EileenDexy's Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express
  3. #3Don't GoYazoo
  4. #4Driving in My CarMadness
  5. #5Da Da DaTrio
  6. #6Shy BoyBananarama
  7. #7It Started with a KISSHot Chocolate
  8. #8AbracadabraThe Steve Miller Band
  9. #9I Second That EmotionJapan
  10. #10A Night To RememberShalamar

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