Songs · UK Singles Chart

Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

Scritti Politti

Entered Feb 26, 1984 · peaked at #10 on Apr 15, 1984 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 17, 1984

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UK Singles Chart · #10, 16 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #91, 4 wk
Record Power
16.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
1
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
February 1984 – June 1984

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
Scritti Polittiprimary100%16.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 15, 1984 on the timeline →
  1. #1HelloLionel Richie
  2. #2You Take Me UpThompson Twins
  3. #3A Love Worth Waiting ForShakin' Stevens
  4. #4Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)Phil Collins
  5. #5I Want To Break FreeQueen
  6. #6People Are PeopleDepeche Mode
  7. #7Glad It's All Over/Damned on 45Captain Sensible
  8. #8Ain't NobodyRufus & Chaka Khan
  9. #9Nelson MandelaThe Special AKA
  10. #10Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)Scritti Politti

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