Songs · UK Singles Chart

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

The Smiths

Entered Nov 8, 1987 · peaked at #23 on Nov 15, 1987 · 4 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 29, 1987

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Record Power
5.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
4
November 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
The Smithsprimary100%5.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 15, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1China in Your HandT'Pau
  2. #2Got My Mind Set On YouGeorge Harrison
  3. #3Whenever You Need SomebodyRick Astley
  4. #4Never Can Say GoodbyeThe Communards
  5. #5My Baby Just Cares for MeNina Simone
  6. #6(I've Had) The Time Of My LifeBill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
  7. #7You Win AgainBee Gees
  8. #8Jack Mix IVMirage
  9. #9So EmotionalWhitney Houston
  10. #10BarcelonaFreddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe

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