Songs · UK Singles Chart

So Emotional

Whitney Houston

Entered Nov 8, 1987 · peaked at #5 on Nov 22, 1987 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 17, 1988

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 11 wk
Record Power
20.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
November 1987 – January 1988

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
Whitney Houstonprimary100%21.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 22, 1987 on the timeline →
  1. #1China in Your HandT'Pau
  2. #2Got My Mind Set On YouGeorge Harrison
  3. #3Whenever You Need SomebodyRick Astley
  4. #4Never Can Say GoodbyeThe Communards
  5. #5So EmotionalWhitney Houston
  6. #6(I've Had) The Time Of My LifeBill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
  7. #7My Baby Just Cares for MeNina Simone
  8. #8CriticizeAlexander O'Neal
  9. #9Here I Go Again {1987}Whitesnake
  10. #10Letter from AmericaThe Proclaimers

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