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Aswad portraitAswad

Charting Feb 26, 1984Sep 1, 2002 · 98 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 98 wk

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Peak Power
1.67%
week of Aug 14, 1994
Career Power
100
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
36
October 1987 – September 1988
Peak Five Years
59
April 1986 – March 1991
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
98
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of Mar 20, 1988
Comebacks
1
Jul 1994, after 6 quiet years

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

21 records · 100 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
Shine#51428.3
Don't Turn Around#11323.3
Give a Little Love#11812.0
On and On#2597.8
Next to You#2466.6
Beauty's Only Skin Deep#3164.9
How Longwith Yazz#3152.6
Warriors#3332.6
You're No Good#3532.5
Chasing for the Breeze#5131.5
Dancehall Mood#4821.2
54 46 Was My Number#7041.2
Smile#5331.2
Hooked on You#7951.0
Too Wicked (Ep)#6120.9
Set Them Free#7030.8
If I Was#5820.7
Bubbling#9140.6
Shy Guy#6220.6
Kook Noh#9310.2
Pull Up#9910.1

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At their peak

1987 in music

Aswad's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1987 to September 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Kylie Minogue88
  2. 2Bros81
  3. 3Rick Astley79
  4. 4Michael Jackson75
  5. 5Belinda Carlisle72
  6. 6T'Pau71
  7. 7Pet Shop Boys69
  8. 8Tiffany62
  9. 9Bananarama54
  10. 10Debbie Gibson54

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.