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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Barbara Lyon

Charting Jun 24, 1955Jan 11, 1957 · 12 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 12 wk

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Peak Power
1.33%
week of Aug 12, 1955
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
August 1954 – August 1955
Peak Five Years
24
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.46%
week of Jul 29, 1955
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

2 records · 24 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
Stowaway#12817.4
Letter to a Soldier#2746.1

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At their peak

1954 in music

Barbara Lyon's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1954 to August 1955. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Ruby Murray157
  2. 2Frankie Laine100
  3. 3Dickie Valentine99
  4. 4Dean Martin97
  5. 5David Whitfield91
  6. 6Rosemary Clooney90
  7. 7Tennessee Ernie Ford77
  8. 8Nat King Cole76
  9. 9Alma Cogan75
  10. 10Doris Day75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.