SHE WANTS TO DANCE WITH ME – RICK ASTLEY

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
27-Oct-88	25	New
03-Nov-88	16	+9	Biggest climber/Star rater
10-Nov-88	15	+1
17-Nov-88	15	0
24-Nov-88	8	+7	Star rater
01-Dec-88	7	+1
08-Dec-88	7	0
15-Dec-88	4	+3
22-Dec-88	3	+1
29-Dec-88	3	0
05-Jan-89	3	0
12-Jan-89	3	0
19-Jan-89	2	+1	Peak
26-Jan-89	2	0	Peak
02-Feb-89	2	0	Peak
09-Feb-89	4	-2
16-Feb-89	7	-3
23-Feb-89	6*	+1

* This was the final chart to be broadcast.

Written by: Rick Astley
Produced by: Phil Harding & Ian Curnow
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): RCA Victor

Hit number for artist	4
Peak position	2
Weeks	18
Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest faller awards	0
Top 20 points	250
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=189
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	2
Top 30 Points	426
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=212
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	2

Annual ranking:

1988	47
1989	3

Other chart success:

Australia	15
Austria
Belgium	3
Canada	1
Denmark	4
Ecuador	1
Finland	2
Germany	10
Iceland	16
Ireland	4
Italy	7
Netherlands	8
New Zealand	10
Spain	5
Sweden	12
Switzerland	12
UK	6
US	6
Zimbabwe	3

SA Radio charts:

Capital 604

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When Astley rejected the Stock, Aitken & Watermen penned ‘Nothing Can Divide Us’ as the intended lead single for his second album, he was given the go ahead to write a track himself to be the lead single. (as an aside, ‘Nothing Can Divide Us’ was then picked up by Jason Donovan and would be a UK number 5 hit for him). Astley wrote ‘She Wants To Dance With Me’ in the style of Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ because he knew that Pete Waterman was a big fan of Houston.  ‘She Wants To Dance With Me’ would be kept off the top spot on our charts by a Stock, Aitken & Waterman production in the form of Kylie Minogue’s ‘The Loco-motion’.

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Artist link: Rick Astley