Songs · UK Singles Chart

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

Entered Aug 23, 1970 · peaked at #4 on Oct 4, 1970 · 20 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 1, 2025

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UK Singles Chart · #4, 20 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #61, 8 wk
Record Power
34.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
20
August 1970 – August 2025

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
Black Sabbathprimary100%35.3

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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