Artists · UK Singles Chart

Billy Bragg

Charting Mar 10, 1985 → Dec 4, 2005 · 54 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 54 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 54 wk Global Music Power · 54 wk

Peak Power: 0.74%; week of Apr 7, 1985
Career Power: 42; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 12; January 1985 – January 1986
Peak Five Years: 29; September 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 54; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.19%; week of Mar 17, 1985
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

13 records · 42 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
With a Little Help from My Friends/She's Leaving Homewith Wet Wet Wet, Cara TiveyApple Music	#1May 1988	11	May 1988 – July 1988	9.2	27.5
Between the Wars (Ep)Apple Music	#15March 1985	6	March 1985 – April 1985	9.1	9.0
Levi Stubbs Tears (Ep)Apple Music	#29July 1986	6	June 1986 – July 1986	5.7	5.7
SexualityApple Music	#27July 1991	5	June 1991 – July 1991	5.1	5.1
Days Like TheseApple Music	#43January 1986	5	December 1985 – January 1986	2.9	2.9
Accident Waiting to Happen (Ep)Apple Music	#33March 1992	3	February 1992 – March 1992	2.5	2.5
We Laughedfeatured credit · with Rosetta Life	#11November 2005	5	November 2005 – December 2005	2.2	7.2
Waiting for the Great Leap Forward	#52September 1988	3	September 1988 – September 1988	1.5	1.5
Greetings to the New BrunetteApple Music	#58November 1986	3	November 1986 – November 1986	1.1	1.1
You Woke Up My NeighbourhoodApple Music	#54September 1991	2	September 1991 – September 1991	1.0	1.0
UpfieldApple Music	#46August 1996	2	August 1996 – September 1996	0.9	0.9
The Boy Done GoodApple Music	#55May 1997	2	May 1997 – May 1997	0.7	0.7
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Keywith Wilco	#89November 1998	1	November 1998	0.1	0.2

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At their peak

1985 in music →

Billy Bragg's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1985 to January 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.