Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Irish Rover

The Pogues and the Dubliners

Entered Mar 22, 1987 · peaked at #8 on Apr 5, 1987 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen May 10, 1987

Record Power
12.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
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
The Pogues and the Dublinersprimary100%12.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 5, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Let It BeFerry Aid
  2. #2RespectableMel & Kim
  3. #3La Isla BonitaMadonna
  4. #4Let's Wait a WhileJanet Jackson
  5. #5With or Without YouU2
  6. #6Lean On MeClub Nouveau
  7. #7If You Let Me StayTerence Trent D'Arby
  8. #8The Irish RoverThe Pogues and the Dubliners
  9. #9Weak in the Presence of BeautyAlison Moyet
  10. #10Ever Fallen in LoveFine Young Cannibals
The Irish Rover — The Pogues and the Dubliners · ChartReign