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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Big Fun

Charting Aug 6, 1989Aug 5, 1990 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.57%
week of Dec 31, 1989
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
51
August 1989 – July 1990
Peak Five Years
51
August 1985 – August 1990
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.18%
week of Sep 3, 1989
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

5 records · 51 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
Blame It on the Boogie#41122.5
Can't Shake the Feeling#8916.6
Handful of Promises#2166.4
You've Got a Friendwith Sonia#1464.8
Hey There Lonely Girl#6220.7

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At their peak

1989 in music

Big Fun's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1989 to July 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1New Kids On The Block98
  2. 2Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers86
  3. 3Kylie Minogue80
  4. 4Madonna78
  5. 5Black Box75
  6. 6Jason Donovan63
  7. 7Erasure62
  8. 8Lisa Stansfield55
  9. 9Snap!54
  10. 10Technotronic52

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.