Songs · UK Singles Chart

Africa

Toto

Entered Jan 23, 1983 · peaked at #3 on Feb 20, 1983 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 10, 2013

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 12 wk
Record Power
22.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
January 1983 – March 2013

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
Totoprimary100%22.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 20, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1Too ShyKajagoogoo
  2. #2Billie JeanMichael Jackson
  3. #3AfricaToto
  4. #4ChangeTears For Fears
  5. #5Sign Of The TimesThe Belle Stars
  6. #6Down UnderMen At Work
  7. #7Up Where We BelongJoe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
  8. #8Never Gonna Give You UpMusical Youth
  9. #9Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)/Madness Is All in the MindMadness
  10. #10Wham RapWham!

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