Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Living Years

Mike + The Mechanics

Entered Jan 7, 1989 · peaked at #1 on Mar 25, 1989 · 20 weeks on the chart, last seen May 20, 1989

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 20 wkUK Singles Chart · #2, 11 wk
Record Power
34.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
20
January 1989 – May 1989

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
Mike + The Mechanicsprimary100%34.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 25, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Living YearsMike + The Mechanics
  2. #2Eternal FlameThe Bangles
  3. #3Girl You Know It's TrueMilli Vanilli
  4. #4The LookRoxette
  5. #5My Heart Can't Tell You NoRod Stewart
  6. #6Lost In Your EyesDebbie Gibson
  7. #7She Drives Me CrazyFine Young Cannibals
  8. #8Walk The DinosaurWas (Not Was)
  9. #9RoniBobby Brown
  10. #10You're Not AloneChicago

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