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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Bobby Thurston

Charting Mar 23, 1980 → May 25, 1980 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Peak Power
1.10%
week of May 18, 1980
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
June 1979 – May 1980
Peak Five Years
14
June 1975 – May 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.65%
week of Apr 27, 1980
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

1 song · 14 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
Check Out the Groove#101014.3

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

1979 in music →

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

  1. 1Blondie95
  2. 2The Police89
  3. 3Dr. Hook71
  4. 4ABBA71
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6Michael Jackson69
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra66
  8. 8The Boomtown Rats61
  9. 9Cliff Richard58
  10. 10The Gibson Brothers56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.