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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Chords

Charting Sep 30, 1979Nov 2, 1980 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Peak Power
0.33%
week of Feb 24, 1980
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
November 1979 – November 1980
Peak Five Years
9
November 1975 – November 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.91%
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

5 records · 9 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
Maybe Tomorrow#4053.6
In My Street#5041.9
British Way of Life#5431.4
Something's Missing#5531.4
Now It's Gone#6320.7

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At their peak

1979 in music

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

  1. 1Madness80
  2. 2The Police70
  3. 3The Beat62
  4. 4Blondie61
  5. 5The Jam61
  6. 6Queen59
  7. 7The Nolans59
  8. 8Dr. Hook59
  9. 9Matchbox58
  10. 10Michael Jackson58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.