Songs · UK Singles Chart

Cruel Summer

Bananarama

Entered Jul 3, 1983 · peaked at #8 on Jul 31, 1983 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 4, 1983

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Billboard Hot 100 · #9, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 10 wk
Record Power
17.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
July 1983 – September 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
Bananaramaprimary100%17.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 31, 1983 on the timeline →
  1. #1Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)Paul Young
  2. #2I.O.U.Freeez
  3. #3Double DutchMalcolm McLaren
  4. #4Who's That GirlEurythmics
  5. #5Give It UpKC And The Sunshine Band
  6. #6The CrownGary Byrd and the GB Experience
  7. #7Wrapped Around Your FingerThe Police
  8. #8Cruel SummerBananarama
  9. #9Come Live with MeHeaven 17
  10. #10Club TropicanaWham!

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