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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Angelic Upstarts

Charting Apr 15, 1979Feb 15, 1981 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 30 wk

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Peak Power
0.64%
week of Sep 2, 1979
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
April 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years
20
February 1976 – February 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.34%
week of Aug 26, 1979
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

7 records · 20 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
Teenage Warning#2966.5
I'm an Upstart#3186.3
Never 'Ad Nothin#5241.8
Last Night Another Soldier#5141.8
Kids on the Street#5731.5
Out of Control#5831.2
We Gotta Get Out of This Place#6520.7

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At their peak

1979 in music

Angelic Upstarts's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Police98
  2. 2ABBA85
  3. 3Blondie84
  4. 4Electric Light Orchestra69
  5. 5The Boomtown Rats61
  6. 6Squeeze58
  7. 7Cliff Richard58
  8. 8Michael Jackson57
  9. 9The Gibson Brothers56
  10. 10Dollar55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.