Songs · UK Singles Chart

Clair

Gilbert O'Sullivan

Entered Oct 15, 1972 · peaked at #1 on Nov 5, 1972 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 14, 1973

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 14 wk
Record Power
32.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
October 1972 – January 1973

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
Gilbert O'Sullivanprimary100%32.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 5, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1ClairGilbert O'Sullivan
  2. #2Mouldy Old DoughLieutenant Pigeon
  3. #3Donna10cc
  4. #4ElectedAlice Cooper
  5. #5Loop Di LoveShag
  6. #6My Ding-A-LingChuck Berry
  7. #7In A Broken DreamPython Lee Jackson
  8. #8Leader of the Pack {1972}The Shangri-Las
  9. #9Goodbye To LoveCarpenters
  10. #10Hallelujah FreedomJunior Campbell

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Clair — Gilbert O'Sullivan · ChartReign