Songs · UK Singles Chart

Walk Of Life

Dire Straits

Entered Jan 5, 1986 · peaked at #2 on Jan 19, 1986 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 30, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #7, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 12 wk
Record Power
22.7
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
12
January 1986 – March 1986

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
Dire Straitsprimary100%23.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 19, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Sun Always Shines on TVa-ha
  2. #2Walk Of LifeDire Straits
  3. #3West End GirlsPet Shop Boys
  4. #4Broken WingsMr. Mister
  5. #5You Little ThiefFeargal Sharkey
  6. #6Saturday LoveCherrelle & Alexander O'Neal
  7. #7Hit That Perfect BeatBronski Beat
  8. #8Only LoveNana Mouskouri
  9. #9Alice, I Want You Just for MeFull Force
  10. #10Suspicious MindsFine Young Cannibals

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Walk Of Life — Dire Straits · ChartReign