Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Right Thing

Simply Red

Entered Feb 8, 1987 · peaked at #11 on Mar 1, 1987 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 12, 1987

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UK Singles Chart · #11, 10 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #27, 15 wk
Record Power
14.8
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
10
February 1987 – April 1987

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%14.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 1, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1Stand by Me {1987}Ben E. King
  2. #2When a Man Loves a Woman {1987}Percy Sledge
  3. #3Live It UpMental as Anything
  4. #4Male Stripper {1987}Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish
  5. #5Crush on YouJets {Us}
  6. #6Running In The FamilyLevel 42
  7. #7Everything I OwnBoy George
  8. #8Down to EarthCuriosity Killed The Cat
  9. #9The Great PretenderFreddie Mercury
  10. #10I Get the Sweetest Feeling {1987}Jackie Wilson

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