Songs · UK Singles Chart

Can't Get It Out Of My Head

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Jan 14, 1979 · peaked at #52 on Jan 14, 1979 · 2 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 21, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #9, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #52, 2 wk
Record Power
1.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
2
January 1979 – January 1979

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
Electric Light Orchestraprimary100%1.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 14, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1Y.M.C.A.Village People
  2. #2Hit Me with Your Rhythm StickIan and the Blockheads
  3. #3Lay Your Love on MeRacey
  4. #4SeptemberEarth, Wind & Fire
  5. #5A Little More LoveOlivia Newton-John
  6. #6Hello This Is JoanniePaul Evans
  7. #7Le FreakChic
  8. #8Song for GuyElton John
  9. #9One Nation Under a GrooveFunkadelic
  10. #10Car 67Driver 67

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