Commercial Performance
"You're History" is one of Shakespears Sister's most successful singles to date, and their first song to peak within the Top 10, peaking at #7 in their native UK. The single entered the UK Singles Chart on the 29th of July, 1989 and spent nine weeks in the Top 75. In Australia, the song debuted at #48. It slowly climbed the charts, until seven weeks later it peaked at #20. It slowly descended the charts from that point, and spent at total of seventeen weeks in the Top 50. In the Netherlands, the song entered the charts at #76, peaked at #51, and spent a total of seven weeks in the Top 100. In New Zealand, the song entered at #49, before jumping twenty places the next week, and peaked at #28. It spent two weeks there before dropping ten places and falling out of the charts, spending five weeks in the Top 50.
The song peaked at #55 in Germany, and #12 in Ireland, spending a total of three weeks on that chart. Sweden was the only territory other than the UK where the song peaked within the top ten. The song debuted at #14, then jumped to #8, before falling back to #14 the next week. In its fourth and final week in the charts, the song dropped to #18, then fell out of the Top 20.
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