Songs · UK Singles Chart

Breakout

Swing Out Sister

Entered Oct 12, 1986 · peaked at #4 on Nov 16, 1986 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 25, 1987

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Billboard Hot 100 · #6, 23 wkUK Singles Chart · #4, 15 wk
Record Power
25.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
October 1986 – January 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
Swing Out Sisterprimary100%24.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 16, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Take My Breath Away (Love Theme From "Top Gun")Berlin
  2. #2You Keep Me Hangin' OnKim Wilde
  3. #3Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)Mel & Kim
  4. #4BreakoutSwing Out Sister
  5. #5The Final CountdownEurope
  6. #6Through the BarricadesSpandau Ballet
  7. #7Livin' On A PrayerBon Jovi
  8. #8Walk Like An EgyptianThe Bangles
  9. #9Don't Give UpPeter Gabriel & Kate Bush
  10. #10For AmericaRed Box

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