Songs · UK Singles Chart

Start Me Up

The Rolling Stones

Entered Aug 23, 1981 · peaked at #7 on Sep 6, 1981 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 18, 1981

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 24 wkUK Singles Chart · #7, 9 wk
Record Power
14.8
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
9
August 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
The Rolling Stonesprimary100%14.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 6, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1Tainted LoveSoft Cell
  2. #2Prince CharmingAdam & the Ants
  3. #3Japanese BoyAneka
  4. #4Wired For SoundCliff Richard
  5. #5Hold On TightElectric Light Orchestra
  6. #6Love Action (I Believe in Love)The Human League
  7. #7Start Me UpThe Rolling Stones
  8. #8SouvenirOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  9. #9One in TenUB40
  10. #10She's Got ClawsGary Numan

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