Songs · UK Singles Chart

Sultans Of Swing

Dire Straits

Entered Mar 4, 1979 · peaked at #8 on Apr 1, 1979 · 26 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 11, 2025

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 26 wk
Record Power
24.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
26
March 1979 – July 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
Dire Straitsprimary100%24.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 1, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Will SurviveGloria Gaynor
  2. #2In The NavyVillage People
  3. #3Bright EyesArt Garfunkel
  4. #4I Want Your LoveChic
  5. #5Something Else/Friggin' in the RigginThe Sex Pistols
  6. #6Cool for CatsSqueeze
  7. #7Lucky NumberLene Lovich
  8. #8Sultans Of SwingDire Straits
  9. #9Turn the Music UpPlayers Association
  10. #10Oliver's ArmyElvis Costello And The Attractions

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