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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Captain Beaky

Charting Jan 20, 1980Apr 13, 1980 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 13 wk

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Peak Power
1.21%
week of Mar 9, 1980
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
April 1979 – April 1980
Peak Five Years
17
April 1975 – April 1980
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.06%
week of Feb 10, 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

2 records · 17 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
Captain Beaky/Wilfred the Weasel#51016.6
The Trial of Hissing Sidwith Keith Michell#5340.7

At their peak

1979 in music

Captain Beaky's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1979 to April 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Police100
  2. 2Blondie90
  3. 3ABBA85
  4. 4Electric Light Orchestra69
  5. 5Madness63
  6. 6Dr. Hook61
  7. 7The Boomtown Rats61
  8. 8Cliff Richard58
  9. 9Michael Jackson57
  10. 10The Gibson Brothers57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.