Songs · UK Singles Chart

I Don't Like Mondays

The Boomtown Rats

Entered Jul 15, 1979 · peaked at #1 on Jul 22, 1979 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 10, 1994

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 15 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #73, 5 wk
Record Power
32.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
July 1979 – July 1994

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
The Boomtown Ratsprimary100%32.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 22, 1979 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Don't Like MondaysThe Boomtown Rats
  2. #2Are 'Friends' Electric?Tubeway Army
  3. #3Silly GamesJanet Kay
  4. #4Girls TalkDave Edmunds
  5. #5WantedThe Dooleys
  6. #6My SharonaThe Knack
  7. #7Good TimesChic
  8. #8C'Mon EverybodyThe Sex Pistols
  9. #9Lady LyndaThe Beach Boys
  10. #10Breakfast In AmericaSupertramp

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