Songs · UK Singles Chart

Better Things

The Kinks

Entered Jun 21, 1981 · peaked at #46 on Jun 28, 1981 · 5 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 19, 1981

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UK Singles Chart · #46, 5 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #92, 8 wk
Record Power
2.8
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
5
June 1981 – July 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 Kinksprimary100%2.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 28, 1981 on the timeline →
  1. #1One Day In Your LifeMichael Jackson
  2. #2Ghost TownSpecials
  3. #3Can CanBad Manners
  4. #4Going Back to My RootsOdyssey
  5. #5Being With YouSmokey Robinson
  6. #6MemoryElaine Paige
  7. #7Body TalkImagination
  8. #8More Than in LoveKate Robbins & Beyond
  9. #9Teddy BearRed Sovine
  10. #10How 'bout UsChampaign

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