Songs · UK Singles Chart

Wild Wild Life

Talking Heads

Entered Aug 31, 1986 · peaked at #43 on Sep 7, 1986 · 4 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 21, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #25, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #43, 4 wk
Record Power
2.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
4
August 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
Talking Headsprimary100%2.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 7, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Don't Leave Me This WayThe Communards
  2. #2I Want to Wake Up with YouBoris Gardiner
  3. #3We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes OffJermaine Stewart
  4. #4Rage HardFrankie Goes To Hollywood
  5. #5Glory of LovePeter Cetera
  6. #6Holiday RapMC Miker G & DJ Sven
  7. #7Brother LouieModern Talking
  8. #8(I Just) Died In Your ArmsCutting Crew
  9. #9So Macho/CruisingSinitta
  10. #10HumanThe Human League

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