Artists · UK Singles Chart

Busted

Charting Sep 22, 2002 → Oct 7, 2016 · 106 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 106 wk (4 crowns)

Compare with other artists →

Image credits

Photo: Howardcorn33, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 2003

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
20022016
Longest reign 2 weeks (Aug 2004) · First crown Nov 2003

UK Singles Chart · 106 wk Global Music Power · 106 wk

Peak Power: 2.03%; week of May 18, 2003
Career Power: 158; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 82; January 2003 – January 2004
Peak Five Years: 157; February 2000 – February 2005
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 106; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.81%; week of Apr 27, 2003
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

9 records · 158 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
Year 3000Apple Music	#2January 2003	21	January 2003 – June 2014	30.8	30.8
Thunderbirds/3AmApple Music	#1August 2004	17	August 2004 – December 2004	26.5	26.4
What I Go to School ForApple Music	#3September 2002	18	September 2002 – February 2005	21.0	20.9
Crashed the WeddingApple Music	#1November 2003	13	November 2003 – April 2004	18.8	18.8
You Said NoApple Music	#1April 2003	12	April 2003 – August 2003	18.4	18.3
Sleeping with the Light OnApple Music	#3August 2003	13	August 2003 – November 2003	15.5	15.5
Who's DavidApple Music	#1February 2004	10	February 2004 – April 2004	14.6	14.5
Air HostessApple Music	#2May 2004	14	May 2004 – January 2005	11.9	12.4
On What You're On	#60October 2016	1	October 2016	0.5	0.5

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

2003 in music →

Busted's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 2003 to January 2004. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s.