Songs · UK Singles Chart

Please Mr. Postman

Carpenters

Entered Jan 12, 1975 · peaked at #2 on Feb 9, 1975 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 30, 1975

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 12 wk
Record Power
25.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
January 1975 – March 1975

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%25.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 9, 1975 on the timeline →
  1. #1JanuaryPilot
  2. #2Please Mr. PostmanCarpenters
  3. #3Sugar Candy KissesMac & Katie Kissoon
  4. #4Goodbye My LoveThe Glitter Band
  5. #5Angie BabyHelen Reddy
  6. #6The BumpKenny
  7. #7Black Superman - "Muhammad AliJohnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band
  8. #8Morning Side Of The MountainDonny & Marie Osmond
  9. #9Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  10. #10FootseeWigan's Chosen Few

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