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Ben Folds Five portraitBen Folds Five

Charting Jun 23, 1996Apr 25, 1999 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 13 wk

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Peak Power
0.32%
week of Mar 9, 1997
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
6
June 1996 – June 1997
Peak Five Years
11
May 1994 – April 1999
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.49%
week of Apr 12, 1998
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

6 records · 11 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
Battle of Who Could Care Less#2633.3
Brick#2633.2
Army#2821.8
Underground#3721.6
Kate#3921.3
Where's Summer B?#7610.3

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At their peak

1996 in music

Ben Folds Five's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1996 to June 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Spice Girls142
  2. 2Fugees94
  3. 3Toni Braxton74
  4. 4Peter Andre72
  5. 5Celine Dion68
  6. 6Boyzone59
  7. 7Backstreet Boys56
  8. 8Mark Morrison54
  9. 9George Michael50
  10. 10Damage49

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.