Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Holding Back The Years

Simply Red

Entered Apr 5, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Jul 12, 1986 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 6, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #51, 4 wk
Record Power
34.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
April 1986 – September 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
Simply Redprimary100%34.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 12, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Holding Back The YearsSimply Red
  2. #2Invisible TouchGenesis
  3. #3There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)Billy Ocean
  4. #4NastyJanet Jackson
  5. #5Who's Johnny ("Short Circuit" Theme)El DeBarge
  6. #6SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  7. #7Danger ZoneKenny Loggins
  8. #8No One Is To BlameHoward Jones
  9. #9Your Wildest DreamsThe Moody Blues
  10. #10Tuff EnuffThe Fabulous Thunderbirds

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