Songs · UK Singles Chart

I Don't Wanna Dance

Eddy Grant

Entered Oct 10, 1982 · peaked at #1 on Nov 7, 1982 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 23, 1983

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 16 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #53, 7 wk
Record Power
30.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
October 1982 – January 1983

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
Eddy Grantprimary100%30.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 7, 1982 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Don't Wanna DanceEddy Grant
  2. #2HeartbreakerDionne Warwick
  3. #3Mad WorldTears For Fears
  4. #4Do You Really Want To Hurt MeCulture Club
  5. #5Sexual HealingMarvin Gaye
  6. #6Ooh la la la (Let's Go Dancin')Kool & The Gang
  7. #7StarmakerThe Kids from 'Fame
  8. #8I Wanna Do It with YouBarry Manilow
  9. #9The Girl Is MineMichael Jackson & Paul McCartney
  10. #10ManeaterDaryl Hall and John Oates

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