Songs · UK Singles Chart

Build Me Up Buttercup

The Foundations

Entered Nov 20, 1968 · peaked at #2 on Dec 25, 1968 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 6, 1998

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 16 wk
Record Power
34.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
November 1968 – December 1998

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 Foundationsprimary100%34.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 25, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1Lily the PinkThe Scaffold
  2. #2Build Me Up ButtercupThe Foundations
  3. #3Ain't Got No-I Got Life/Do What You Gotta DoNina Simone
  4. #41-2-3 O'LearyDes O'Connor
  5. #5Sabre DanceLove Sculpture
  6. #6I'm the Urban SpacemanBonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
  7. #7Ob-La-Di Ob-La-DaMarmalade
  8. #8The Good the Bad and the UglyHugo Montenegro
  9. #9AlbatrossFleetwood Mac
  10. #10Race with the DevilGun

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