Songs · UK Singles Chart

Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)

Soul II Soul

Entered Jun 4, 1989 · peaked at #1 on Jun 18, 1989 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 10, 1989

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Record Power
33.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
June 1989 – September 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
Soul II Soulprimary100%33.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 18, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)Soul II Soul
  2. #2Sealed with a KISSJason Donovan
  3. #3BatdancePrince
  4. #4Right Back Where We Started FromSinitta
  5. #5All I Want Is YouU2
  6. #6The Best of MeCliff Richard
  7. #7I Drove All NightCyndi Lauper
  8. #8Song for WhoeverThe Beautiful South
  9. #9Sweet Child O' Mine {1989}Guns N' Roses
  10. #10Express YourselfMadonna

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Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) — Soul II Soul · ChartReign