Songs · UK Singles Chart

Classical Gas

Mason Williams

Entered Aug 28, 1968 · peaked at #9 on Oct 9, 1968 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 20, 1968

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 14 wkUK Singles Chart · #9, 13 wk
Record Power
23.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
August 1968 – November 1968

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
Mason Williamsprimary100%23.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 9, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1Those Were The DaysMary Hopkin
  2. #2Little ArrowsLeapy Lee
  3. #3JesamineCasuals
  4. #4Hey JudeThe Beatles
  5. #5Lady WillpowerThe Union Gap
  6. #6My Little LadyThe Tremeloes
  7. #7Red BalloonThe Dave Clark Five
  8. #8Ice In The SunThe Status Quo
  9. #9Classical GasMason Williams
  10. #10Hold Me TightJohnny Nash

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