Songs · UK Singles Chart

Automatic

The Pointer Sisters

Entered Apr 1, 1984 · peaked at #2 on May 13, 1984 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 29, 1984

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 20 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 17 wk
Record Power
26.7
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
17
April 1984 – July 1984

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 Pointer Sistersprimary100%25.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 13, 1984 on the timeline →
  1. #1The ReflexDuran Duran
  2. #2AutomaticThe Pointer Sisters
  3. #3Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)Phil Collins
  4. #4I Want To Break FreeQueen
  5. #5One Love/People Get ReadyBob Marley And The Wailers
  6. #6FootlooseKenny Loggins
  7. #7LocomotionOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  8. #8Let's Hear It For The BoyDeniece Williams
  9. #9Don't Tell MeBlancmange
  10. #10When You're Young and in LoveThe Flying Pickets

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