Songs · UK Singles Chart

You Really Got Me

The Kinks

Entered Aug 13, 1964 · peaked at #1 on Sep 10, 1964 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 19, 2004

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 14 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #7, 15 wk
Record Power
29.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
August 1964 – September 2004

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 Kinksprimary100%29.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 10, 1964 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Really Got MeThe Kinks
  2. #2Have I The Right?The Honeycombs
  3. #3I Won't Forget YouJim Reeves
  4. #4I Wouldn't Trade You For The WorldThe Bachelors
  5. #5The Crying GameDave Berry
  6. #6Do Wah Diddy DiddyManfred Mann
  7. #7I'm Into Something GoodHerman's Hermits
  8. #8Rag DollThe Four Seasons
  9. #9As Tears Go ByMarianne Faithfull
  10. #10A Hard Day's NightThe Beatles

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