Songs · UK Singles Chart

Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)

Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding

Entered Sep 20, 1987 · peaked at #2 on Oct 4, 1987 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 22, 1987

Record Power
21.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
September 1987 – November 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
Abigail Meadprimary50%10.7
Nigel Gouldingprimary50%10.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 4, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Pump Up the Volume/Anitina (the First Time I See She Dance)M/A/R/R/S
  2. #2Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding
  3. #3BadMichael Jackson
  4. #4Never Gonna Give You UpRick Astley
  5. #5Crockett's ThemeJan Hammer
  6. #6You Win AgainBee Gees
  7. #7This CorrosionThe Sisters of Mercy
  8. #8Some PeopleCliff Richard
  9. #9I Need LoveLL Cool J
  10. #10Causing A CommotionMadonna