Artists · UK Singles Chart

Cake

Charting Mar 16, 1997 → Nov 4, 2001 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 17 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 17 wk UK Singles Chart · 8 wk Global Music Power · 25 wk

Peak Power: 0.30%; week of Mar 30, 1997
Career Power: 6; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 5; June 1996 – June 1997
Peak Five Years: 6; November 1996 – November 2001
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 8; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.71%; week of Mar 16, 1997
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

4 records · 6 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 DistanceApple Music	#22March 1997	3	March 1997 – March 1997	3.2	3.2
I Will SurviveApple Music	#29May 1997	2	May 1997 – June 1997	1.9	1.9
Short Skirt Long Jacket	#63October 2001	2	October 2001 – November 2001	0.6	0.6
Never ThereApple Music	#66April 1999	1	April 1999	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1996 in music →

Cake's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1996 to June 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.