Artists · UK Singles Chart

Alvin Stardust

Charting Oct 28, 1973 → Dec 22, 1985 · 116 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 116 wk (5 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
5 crowns
19731985
Longest reign 5 weeks (Feb–Mar 1974) · First crown Feb 1974

UK Singles Chart · 116 wk Global Music Power · 116 wk

Peak Power: 3.08%; week of Mar 17, 1974
Career Power: 201; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 104; November 1973 – October 1974
Peak Five Years: 136; August 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks: 15; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 116; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.38%; week of Mar 3, 1974
Comebacks: 2; Oct 1981, after 6 quiet years · Jun 1984

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

14 records · 201 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
My Coo-Ca-ChooApple Music	#2November 1973	21	October 1973 – March 1974	43.8	46.0
Jealous MindApple Music	#1March 1974	11	February 1974 – April 1974	24.5	24.3
You You YouApple Music	#6September 1974	10	August 1974 – October 1974	20.9	20.9
PretendApple Music	#4September 1981	10	August 1981 – November 1981	20.5	20.4
I Won't Run AwayApple Music	#7December 1984	15	October 1984 – January 1985	20.3	20.1
I Feel Like Buddy HollyApple Music	#7May 1984	12	April 1984 – July 1984	16.7	16.6
Red DressApple Music	#7May 1974	8	April 1974 – June 1974	15.6	15.4
Good Love Can Never DieApple Music	#11February 1975	9	January 1975 – March 1975	14.6	14.6
Tell Me WhyApple Music	#16December 1974	8	November 1974 – January 1975	13.5	13.5
Sweet Cheatin' Rita	#37July 1975	4	July 1975 – July 1975	3.3	3.3
A Wonderful Time Up There	#56November 1981	8	November 1981 – January 1982	3.0	3.0
So Near to Christmas	#29December 1984	5	December 1984 – December 1984	2.6	4.0
Got a Little HeartacheApple Music	#55March 1985	4	March 1985 – March 1985	1.5	1.5
So Near to Christmas {1985}	#81December 1985	2	December 1985 – December 1985	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1973 in music →

Alvin Stardust's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1973 to October 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.