Songs · UK Singles Chart

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears

Entered Mar 24, 1985 · peaked at #2 on Apr 14, 1985 · 56 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 5, 2024

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 24 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 56 wk
Record Power
37.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
56
March 1985 – January 2024

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
Tears For Fearsprimary100%37.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 14, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1We Are The WorldUSA For Africa
  2. #2Everybody Wants To Rule The WorldTears For Fears
  3. #3Easy LoverPhilip Bailey & Phil Collins
  4. #4Move CloserPhyllis Nelson
  5. #5Welcome to the PleasuredomeFrankie Goes To Hollywood
  6. #6We Close Our EyesGo West
  7. #7Could It Be I'm Falling in LoveDavid Grant & Jaki Graham
  8. #8One More NightPhil Collins
  9. #9Clouds Across the MoonRah Band
  10. #10Pie JesuSarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World — Tears For Fears · ChartReign