Songs · UK Singles Chart

Cruel To Be Kind

Nick Lowe

Entered Aug 19, 1979 · peaked at #12 on Sep 30, 1979 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 28, 1979

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Billboard Hot 100 · #12, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #12, 11 wk
Record Power
16.3
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
11
August 1979 – October 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
Nick Loweprimary100%16.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 30, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1Message In A BottleThe Police
  2. #2DreamingBlondie
  3. #3CarsGary Numan
  4. #4Whatever You WantThe Status Quo
  5. #5If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against MeBellamy Brothers
  6. #6Video Killed The Radio StarThe Buggles
  7. #7Don't Stop 'til You Get EnoughMichael Jackson
  8. #8Since You've Been GoneRainbow
  9. #9Love's Gotta Hold on MeDollar
  10. #10Don't Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra

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