Songs · UK Singles Chart

(They Long To Be) Close To You

Carpenters

Entered Aug 30, 1970 · peaked at #6 on Oct 4, 1970 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 27, 1970

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 18 wk
Record Power
29.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
August 1970 – December 1970

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
Carpentersprimary100%29.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 4, 1970 on the timeline →
  1. #1Band Of GoldFreda Payne
  2. #2You Can Get It If You Really WantDesmond Dekker
  3. #3Black NightDeep Purple
  4. #4ParanoidBlack Sabbath
  5. #5Montego BayBobby Bloom
  6. #6(They Long To Be) Close To YouCarpenters
  7. #7Ain't No Mountain High EnoughDiana Ross
  8. #8Me and My LifeThe Tremeloes
  9. #9Give Me Just a Little More TimeChairmen of the Board
  10. #10Which Way You Goin' Billy? ft Susan JacksThe Poppy Family feat. Susan Jacks

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