One Night in Heaven - Chart Performance

Chart Performance

Like the previous single, "One Night in Heaven" became the second consecutive single to enter the Top 10 and climb higher. It is the only M People single to climb not once, but twice. It spent the first three weeks climbing from its introductory chart position of number 9 to 7 to then peak in its third week at number 6. The single entered the chart at number 9 in the summer of 1993 with sales of 84,000 copies in its first week, but after one of two performances on Top of the Pops made a steady ascent climbing to number 7 selling further 89,000 copies in each of the following two weeks and in its fourth week selling 98,000 copies to climb and peak at number 6 where it remained for another week afterwards. This meant the single sold 360,000 copies in a month.

This single spent a total of 11 weeks in the chart throughout the summer of 1993 leaving August 30, 1993. One in Night in Heaven became a massive success Europe-wide, scoring Top 10 hits in Germany, France and Holland. On the dance chart M People were held off the top spot by Haddaway’s What Is Love. The song also reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S. in 1994.