Automatic – Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters took this track into the UK top 10 for five weeks in 1984.

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Thirty years ago this week, Automatic by the Pointer Sisters was at its highest position of number 2 in the UK singles chart for the second of two weeks. It had entered the top 40 five weeks previously at number 38 and broke into the top 10 two weeks later. After falling from its peak position, the song stayed in the top 10 for one more week, at number 4, and then spent the final three weeks of its chart life in the lower top 40.

Automatic was released on the Planet record label and was the second of three top 10 hits for the Pointer Sisters in the UK. It was taken from the gold-selling album Break out, which peaked at number 9 in the UK album chart. The single was certified silver.

More music from the Pointer Sisters

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 26 May 1984

1. The reflex – Duran Duran

2. Automatic – Pointer Sisters

3. Let’s hear it for the boy – Deniece Williams

4. Wake me up before you go go – Wham!

5. I want to break free – Queen

6. One love – People get ready – Bob Marley and the Wailers

7. Footloose – Kenny Loggins

8. Against all odds (take a look at me now) – Phil Collins

9. Break dance party – Break Machine

10. Dancing with tears in my eyes – Ultravox

 

14. Love wars – Womack and Womack