Songs · UK Singles Chart

A Boy from Nowhere

Tom Jones

Entered Mar 29, 1987 · peaked at #2 on May 17, 1987 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 28, 1987

Record Power
26.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
March 1987 – June 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
Tom Jonesprimary100%25.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 17, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Nothing's Gonna Stop Us NowStarship
  2. #2A Boy from NowhereTom Jones
  3. #3Can't Be with You TonightJudy Boucher
  4. #4(Something Inside) So StrongLabi Siffre
  5. #5Shattered DreamsJohnny Hates Jazz
  6. #6IncommunicadoMarillion
  7. #7Living In A BoxLiving In A Box
  8. #8Another Step (Closer to You)Kim Wilde & Junior
  9. #9Big LoveFleetwood Mac
  10. #10I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)Whitney Houston