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What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it 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.

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

Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1989.

• Especially for You · Kylie Minogue & Jason
• Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart ft Gene Pitney · Marc Almond feat. Gene Pitney
• Belfast Child · Simple Minds
• Too Many Broken Hearts · Jason Donovan
• Like A Prayer · Madonna
• Eternal Flame · The Bangles
• Hand on Your Heart · Kylie Minogue
• Ferry Cross the Mersey · Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & The Christians
• Sealed with a KISS · Jason Donovan
• Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) · Soul II Soul
• You'll Never Stop Me from Loving You · Sonia
• Swing The Mood · Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers
• Ride on Time · Black Box
• That's What I Like · Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers
• All Around The World · Lisa Stansfield
• You Got It (The Right Stuff) · New Kids On The Block
• Let's Party · Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers
• Do They Know It's Christmas? · Band Aid II