Songs · UK Singles Chart

Hold On Tight

Electric Light Orchestra

Entered Jul 26, 1981 · peaked at #4 on Aug 30, 1981 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 11, 1981

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Billboard Hot 100 · #10, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #4, 12 wk
Record Power
26.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
July 1981 – October 1981

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%26.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 30, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Tainted LoveSoft Cell
  2. #2Japanese BoyAneka
  3. #3Love Action (I Believe in Love)The Human League
  4. #4Hold On TightElectric Light Orchestra
  5. #5Hooked On ClassicsRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
  6. #6She's Got ClawsGary Numan
  7. #7One in TenUB40
  8. #8Green DoorShakin' Stevens
  9. #9AbacabGenesis
  10. #10The Caribbean Disco ShowLobo

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