Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Message

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Entered Aug 22, 1982 · peaked at #8 on Sep 12, 1982 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 17, 1982

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Record Power
16.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
August 1982 – October 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
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Fiveprimary100%16.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 12, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1Eye Of The TigerSurvivor
  2. #2Private InvestigationsDire Straits
  3. #3Save A PrayerDuran Duran
  4. #4Walking on Sunshine ft Donnie CalvinRocker's Revenge feat. Donnie Calvin
  5. #5The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)The Jam
  6. #6All of My HeartABC
  7. #7Hi Fidelity ft Valerie LandsbergThe Kids from 'Fame feat. Valerie Landsberg
  8. #8The MessageGrandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
  9. #9Come on EileenDexy's Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express
  10. #10There It IsShalamar

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