Songs · UK Singles Chart

Let's Wait a While

Janet Jackson

Entered Mar 15, 1987 · peaked at #3 on Mar 29, 1987 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen May 17, 1987

Record Power
21.5
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
10
March 1987 – May 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
Janet Jacksonprimary100%21.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 29, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Let It BeFerry Aid
  2. #2RespectableMel & Kim
  3. #3Let's Wait a WhileJanet Jackson
  4. #4With or Without YouU2
  5. #5La Isla BonitaMadonna
  6. #6Everything I OwnBoy George
  7. #7Lean On MeClub Nouveau
  8. #8Weak in the Presence of BeautyAlison Moyet
  9. #9I Get the Sweetest Feeling {1987}Jackie Wilson
  10. #10The Great PretenderFreddie Mercury