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Songs · UK Singles Chart

Eight Miles High

The Byrds

Entered May 5, 1966 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 30, 1966

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Billboard Hot 100 · #14, 9 wkUK Singles Chart · #24, 9 wk
Record Power
9.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#24
1 week there · Jun 9, 1966
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
May 1966 – June 1966

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 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.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
The Byrdsprimary100%9.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 9, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #1Strangers In The NightFrank Sinatra
  2. #2Paint It, BlackThe Rolling Stones
  3. #3Wild ThingThe Troggs
  4. #4SorrowMerseys
  5. #5Monday, MondayThe Mamas & The Papas
  6. #6PromisesKen Dodd
  7. #7When A Man Loves A WomanPercy Sledge
  8. #8Don't Bring Me DownThe Animals
  9. #9Sloop John BThe Beach Boys
  10. #10Rainy Day Women Nos 12 and 35Bob Dylan

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