Songs · UK Singles Chart

Smooth Criminal

Michael Jackson

Entered Nov 20, 1988 · peaked at #8 on Nov 27, 1988 · 24 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 16, 2009

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UK Singles Chart · #8, 24 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #7, 15 wk
Record Power
32.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
2
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
24
November 1988 – August 2009

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
Michael Jacksonprimary100%27.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Nov 27, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1First TimeRobin Beck
  2. #2Cat Among the Pigeons/Silent NightBros
  3. #3Missing YouChris de Burgh
  4. #4Left To My Own DevicesPet Shop Boys
  5. #5Need You TonightINXS
  6. #6Two HeartsPhil Collins
  7. #7Mistletoe and WineCliff Richard
  8. #8Smooth CriminalMichael Jackson
  9. #9Twist and ShoutSalt-N-Pepa
  10. #10Say a Little Prayer ft MaureenBomb the Bass feat. Maureen

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