Songs · UK Singles Chart

Living In America

James Brown

Entered Jan 19, 1986 · peaked at #5 on Feb 9, 1986 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 23, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 10 wk
Record Power
18.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
10
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
James Brownprimary100%18.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 9, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get GoingBilly Ocean
  2. #2Borderline {1986}Madonna
  3. #3System AddictFive Star
  4. #4EloiseThe Damned
  5. #5Living In AmericaJames Brown
  6. #6The Sun Always Shines on TVa-ha
  7. #7Only LoveNana Mouskouri
  8. #8The Captain Of Her HeartDouble
  9. #9Starting TogetherSu Pollard
  10. #10How Will I KnowWhitney Houston

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