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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Absolute

Charting Jan 12, 1997Mar 15, 1998 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.10%
week of Jan 19, 1997
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
January 1996 – January 1997
Peak Five Years
1
March 1993 – March 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.69%
week of Jan 12, 1997
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

2 records · 1 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

SongPeakWeeksPower
I Believefeat. Suzanne Palmer#3821.0
Catch Me#6920.5

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At their peak

1996 in music

Absolute's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1996 to January 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Spice Girls96
  2. 2Fugees92
  3. 3Celine Dion89
  4. 4Mark Morrison86
  5. 5Robert Miles79
  6. 6Peter Andre72
  7. 7Oasis70
  8. 8Boyzone66
  9. 93T65
  10. 10Gina G62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.