Songs · UK Singles Chart

Sweet Freedom

Michael McDonald

Entered Aug 31, 1986 · peaked at #12 on Sep 21, 1986 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 23, 1986

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Record Power
12.8
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
11
August 1986 – November 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
Michael McDonaldprimary100%12.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 21, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't Leave Me This WayThe Communards
  2. #2We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes OffJermaine Stewart
  3. #3Word UpCameo
  4. #4Rain or ShineFive Star
  5. #5(I Just) Died In Your ArmsCutting Crew
  6. #6Glory of LovePeter Cetera
  7. #7Thorn In My SideEurythmics
  8. #8Walk This WayRun DMC & Aerosmith
  9. #9I Want to Wake Up with YouBoris Gardiner
  10. #10Love Can't Turn AroundFarley 'Jackmaster' Funk

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