Songs · UK Singles Chart

Papa Don't Preach

Madonna

Entered Jun 22, 1986 · peaked at #1 on Jul 6, 1986 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 21, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 18 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 14 wk
Record Power
32.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
June 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
Madonnaprimary100%32.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 6, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Papa Don't PreachMadonna
  2. #2The Edge Of HeavenWham!
  3. #3My Favourite Waste of TimeOwen Paul
  4. #4Happy HourThe Housemartins
  5. #5Too Good to Be ForgottenAmazulu
  6. #6Let's Go All The WaySly Fox
  7. #7I Can't WaitNu Shooz
  8. #8VenusBananarama
  9. #9New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)Bucks Fizz
  10. #10Do Ya, Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)Samantha Fox

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