Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Great Pretender

Freddie Mercury

Entered Mar 1, 1987 · peaked at #4 on Mar 8, 1987 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 26, 1987

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Record Power
19.3
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
9
March 1987 – April 1987

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
Freddie Mercuryprimary100%19.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 8, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Everything I OwnBoy George
  2. #2Stand by Me {1987}Ben E. King
  3. #3I Get the Sweetest Feeling {1987}Jackie Wilson
  4. #4The Great PretenderFreddie Mercury
  5. #5Live It UpMental as Anything
  6. #6When a Man Loves a Woman {1987}Percy Sledge
  7. #7RespectableMel & Kim
  8. #8Crush on YouJets {Us}
  9. #9Male Stripper {1987}Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish
  10. #10Running In The FamilyLevel 42

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