Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Things Can Only Get Better

Howard Jones

Entered Mar 23, 1985 · peaked at #5 on Jun 15, 1985 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 24, 1985

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 8 wk
Record Power
33.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
March 1985 – August 1985

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
Howard Jonesprimary100%33.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 15, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1Everybody Wants To Rule The WorldTears For Fears
  2. #2HeavenBryan Adams
  3. #3Axel FHarold Faltermeyer
  4. #4SuddenlyBilly Ocean
  5. #5Things Can Only Get BetterHoward Jones
  6. #6SussudioPhil Collins
  7. #7In My HouseMary Jane Girls
  8. #8Everything She WantsWham!
  9. #9AngelMadonna
  10. #10Walking On SunshineKatrina And The Waves

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Things Can Only Get Better — Howard Jones · ChartReign