Songs · UK Singles Chart

Song for Whoever

The Beautiful South

Entered May 28, 1989 · peaked at #2 on Jul 2, 1989 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 6, 1989

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Record Power
24.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
May 1989 – August 1989

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 Beautiful Southprimary100%24.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 2, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)Soul II Soul
  2. #2Song for WhoeverThe Beautiful South
  3. #3London NightsLondon Boys
  4. #4BatdancePrince
  5. #5It's AlrightPet Shop Boys
  6. #6Licence to KillGladys Knight
  7. #7BreakthruQueen
  8. #8All I Want Is YouU2
  9. #9I Drove All NightCyndi Lauper
  10. #10PatienceGuns N' Roses

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