Songs · UK Singles Chart

Lambada

Kaoma

Entered Oct 8, 1989 · peaked at #4 on Dec 3, 1989 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 11, 1990

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UK Singles Chart · #4, 19 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #46, 12 wk
Record Power
33.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
October 1989 – February 1990

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
Kaomaprimary100%33.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 3, 1989 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Got It (The Right Stuff)New Kids On The Block
  2. #2Don't Know MuchLinda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville
  3. #3Eve of the War (Ben Liebrand Remix)Jeff Wayne
  4. #4LambadaKaoma
  5. #5Get A LifeSoul II Soul
  6. #6Homely GirlUB40
  7. #7When You Come Back to MeJason Donovan
  8. #8Can't Shake the FeelingBig Fun
  9. #9Fool's Gold/What the World Is Waiting ForThe Stone Roses
  10. #10All Around The WorldLisa Stansfield

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