Songs · UK Singles Chart

For a Friend

The Communards

Entered Feb 14, 1988 · peaked at #28 on Mar 6, 1988 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 27, 1988

Record Power
5.9
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
7
February 1988 – March 1988

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 Communardsprimary100%5.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 6, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Should Be So LuckyKylie Minogue
  2. #2Together ForeverRick Astley
  3. #3Beat DisBomb the Bass
  4. #4Joe le TaxiVanessa Paradis
  5. #5Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My CarBilly Ocean
  6. #6Doctorin' the House ft Yazz and the Plastic PopulationColdcut feat. Yazz And The Plastic Population
  7. #7Gimme Hope Jo'AnnaEddy Grant
  8. #8SuedeheadMorrissey
  9. #9CrashThe Primitives
  10. #10That's the Way It IsMel & Kim