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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Barbara Dickson

Charting Jan 11, 1976Apr 16, 1995 · 58 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 58 wk

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Peak Power
1.35%
week of Apr 27, 1980
Career Power
65
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
June 1979 – June 1980
Peak Five Years
45
June 1975 – June 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
58
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.67%
week of Feb 8, 1976
Comebacks
1
Mar 1985, after 5 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

9 records · 65 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 Know Him So Wellwith Elaine Paige#11719.1
January February#111016.6
Answer Me#9712.3
Another Suitcase in Another Hall#18710.5
Caravan Song#4174.1
In the Night#4821.3
Time After Time#7840.8
Keeping My Love for You#9720.3
Love Hurts#9920.2

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At their peak

1979 in music

Barbara Dickson's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1979 to June 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Police88
  2. 2Blondie85
  3. 3Michael Jackson76
  4. 4Dr. Hook71
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6ABBA66
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra63
  8. 8The Boomtown Rats61
  9. 9Cliff Richard58
  10. 10B.A. Robertson57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.