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Songs · UK Singles Chart

Don't Push It Don't Force It

Leon Haywood

Entered Mar 9, 1980 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen May 18, 1980

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UK Singles Chart · #12, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #49, 11 wk
Record Power
17.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#12
2 weeks there · first Apr 20, 1980
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
March 1980 – May 1980

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 it 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
Leon Haywoodprimary100%17.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 20, 1980 on the timeline →
  1. #1Call MeBlondie
  2. #2GenoDexys Midnight Runners
  3. #3Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, GirlThe Spinners
  4. #4King/Food for ThoughtUB40
  5. #5Sexy EyesDr. Hook
  6. #6Silver Dream MachineDavid Essex
  7. #7Coming UpPaul McCartney
  8. #8Dance Yourself DizzyLiquid Gold
  9. #9Talk of the TownPretenders
  10. #10Night Boat to Cairo (Work Rest and Play) (Ep)Madness

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