Songs · UK Singles Chart

Holding Back the Years {1986}

Simply Red

Entered May 11, 1986 · peaked at #2 on Jun 1, 1986 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 31, 1986

Record Power
26.1
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
15
May 1986 – August 1986

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
Simply Redprimary100%26.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 1, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Spirit In The SkyDoctor And The Medics
  2. #2Holding Back the Years {1986}Simply Red
  3. #3The Chicken SongSpitting Image
  4. #4SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  5. #5Everybody Wants to Run the WorldTears For Fears
  6. #6On My OwnPatti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
  7. #7Lessons In LoveLevel 42
  8. #8Addicted To LoveRobert Palmer
  9. #9Set Me FreeJaki Graham
  10. #10I Can't WaitNu Shooz