Songs · UK Singles Chart

Why

Carly Simon

Entered Aug 15, 1982 · peaked at #10 on Sep 26, 1982 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 7, 1982

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UK Singles Chart · #10, 13 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #74, 6 wk
Record Power
19.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
August 1982 – November 1982

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
Carly Simonprimary100%19.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 26, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1Pass The DutchieMusical Youth
  2. #2The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)The Jam
  3. #3ZoomFat Larry's Band
  4. #4Eye Of The TigerSurvivor
  5. #5There It IsShalamar
  6. #6Walking on Sunshine ft Donnie CalvinRocker's Revenge feat. Donnie Calvin
  7. #7Love Come DownEvelyn King
  8. #8Private InvestigationsDire Straits
  9. #9Friend or FoeAdam Ant
  10. #10WhyCarly Simon

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