Songs · UK Singles Chart

Love Of The Common People

Paul Young

Entered Nov 13, 1983 · peaked at #2 on Nov 27, 1983 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 5, 1984

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UK Singles Chart · #2, 13 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #45, 11 wk
Record Power
32.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
November 1983 – February 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
Paul Youngprimary100%33.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 27, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1Uptown GirlBilly Joel
  2. #2Love Of The Common PeoplePaul Young
  3. #3Say Say SayPaul McCartney & Michael Jackson
  4. #4Calling Your NameMarilyn
  5. #5Hold Me NowThompson Twins
  6. #6Never NeverAssembly
  7. #7Let's Stay TogetherTina Turner
  8. #8Cry Just a Little BitShakin' Stevens
  9. #9Only YouThe Flying Pickets
  10. #10Right By Your SideEurythmics

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