Songs · UK Singles Chart

Things Can Only Get Better

Howard Jones

Entered Feb 3, 1985 · peaked at #6 on Feb 17, 1985 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 24, 1985

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #6, 8 wk
Record Power
17.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
February 1985 – March 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%17.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 17, 1985 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Know Him So WellElaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
  2. #2Love and Pride {1985}King
  3. #3SolidAshford & Simpson
  4. #4Dancing In The DarkBruce Springsteen
  5. #5You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)Dead Or Alive
  6. #6Things Can Only Get BetterHoward Jones
  7. #7A New EnglandKirsty Maccoll
  8. #8Close (to the Edit)The Art Of Noise
  9. #9NightshiftCommodores
  10. #101999/Little Red CorvettePrince

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