Songs · UK Singles Chart

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

Billy Ocean

Entered Jan 19, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Feb 2, 1986 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 29, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 16 wk
Record Power
31.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
January 1986 – June 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
Billy Oceanprimary100%31.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 2, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get GoingBilly Ocean
  2. #2The Sun Always Shines on TVa-ha
  3. #3Borderline {1986}Madonna
  4. #4Only LoveNana Mouskouri
  5. #5Walk Of LifeDire Straits
  6. #6System AddictFive Star
  7. #7The Phantom of the OperaSarah Brightman & Steve Harley
  8. #8Living In AmericaJames Brown
  9. #9Suspicious MindsFine Young Cannibals
  10. #10Sanctify YourselfSimple Minds

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