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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Balaam and the Angel

Charting Sep 22, 1985Sep 17, 1989 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Peak Power
0.10%
week of Apr 13, 1986
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
July 1985 – June 1986
Peak Five Years
3
September 1984 – September 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.32%
week of Mar 30, 1986
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 · 3 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
She Knows#7041.1
I Like the Things You Do to Me#8230.6
I'll Show You Something Special#7720.5
Slow Down#8730.5
Day and Night#8120.4
I Took a Little#9320.3
Live Free or Die#9610.1

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At their peak

1985 in music

Balaam and the Angel's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1985 to June 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna161
  2. 2a-ha87
  3. 3Whitney Houston74
  4. 4Dire Straits73
  5. 5Five Star70
  6. 6Level 4267
  7. 7Jennifer Rush64
  8. 8Feargal Sharkey59
  9. 9Billy Ocean58
  10. 10Pet Shop Boys56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.