Songs · UK Singles Chart

Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)

Mike + The Mechanics

Entered Feb 2, 1986 · peaked at #21 on Mar 9, 1986 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 6, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #6, 24 wkUK Singles Chart · #21, 10 wk
Record Power
9.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
February 1986 – April 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
Mike + The Mechanicsprimary100%9.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 9, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Chain ReactionDiana Ross
  2. #2Manic MondayThe Bangles
  3. #3Love Missile F1-11Sigue Sigue Sputnik
  4. #4Theme From New York, New YorkFrank Sinatra
  5. #5When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get GoingBilly Ocean
  6. #6Hi Ho SilverJim Diamond
  7. #7(Nothing Serious) Just BugginWhistle
  8. #8Absolute BeginnersDavid Bowie
  9. #9Power of Love/Do You Believe in LoveHuey Lewis & The News
  10. #10Burning HeartSurvivor

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