Artists · UK Singles Chart

Bucks Fizz

Charting Mar 22, 1981 → May 10, 1998 · 156 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 156 wk (5 crowns)

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Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
5 crowns
19811998
Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1981) · First crown Apr 1981

UK Singles Chart · 156 wk Global Music Power · 156 wk

Peak Power: 2.38%; week of Feb 7, 1982
Career Power: 224; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 93; March 1981 – March 1982
Peak Five Years: 201; September 1980 – September 1985
Top-five weeks: 17; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 156; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.59%; week of Jan 17, 1982
Comebacks: 1; Jul 1986

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

21 records · 224 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
The Land of Make BelieveApple Music	#1January 1982	16	November 1981 – March 1982	36.3	35.9
Making Your Mind UpApple Music	#1April 1981	12	March 1981 – June 1981	29.8	29.9
My Camera Never LiesApple Music	#1April 1982	8	March 1982 – May 1982	19.3	19.2
New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)Apple Music	#8June 1986	10	June 1986 – August 1986	17.6	17.5
If You Can't Stand the HeatApple Music	#10January 1983	11	November 1982 – January 1983	17.3	17.0
Now Those Days Are GoneApple Music	#8July 1982	9	June 1982 – August 1982	15.6	15.5
Piece of the ActionApple Music	#12June 1981	9	May 1981 – July 1981	14.6	14.7
When We Were YoungApple Music	#10June 1983	8	June 1983 – July 1983	12.7	12.6
One of Those NightsApple Music	#20September 1981	10	August 1981 – October 1981	12.0	12.0
Talking in Your SleepApple Music	#15September 1984	9	August 1984 – October 1984	11.3	11.2
Run for Your LifeApple Music	#14March 1983	7	March 1983 – April 1983	10.0	9.9
I Hear TalkApple Music	#34January 1985	8	December 1984 – February 1985	6.9	6.9
London TownApple Music	#34October 1983	6	September 1983 – October 1983	5.3	5.2
Rules of the GameApple Music	#57January 1984	10	November 1983 – January 1984	3.0	3.0
You and Your Heart So BlueApple Music	#43June 1985	6	June 1985 – July 1985	2.8	2.8
Keep Each Other Warm	#45November 1986	4	November 1986 – November 1986	2.4	2.4
Golden DaysApple Music	#42October 1984	5	October 1984 – January 1985	2.3	2.3
Love the One You're With	#47August 1986	3	August 1986 – September 1986	1.7	1.7
Heart of StoneApple Music	#50November 1988	3	October 1988 – November 1988	1.7	1.7
MagicalApple Music	#57September 1985	3	September 1985 – September 1985	1.5	1.5
Making Your Mind Up '98	#84May 1998	2	May 1998 – May 1998	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1981 in music →

Bucks Fizz's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1981 to March 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.