Artists · UK Singles Chart

Cocteau Twins

Charting Nov 27, 1983 → Jul 21, 1996 · 39 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 39 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 39 wk Global Music Power · 39 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 0.45%; week of May 13, 1984
Career Power: 21; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 8; April 1984 – April 1985
Peak Five Years: 11; November 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 39; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.33%; week of Apr 29, 1984
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

14 records · 21 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
Pearly-Dewdrops DropsApple Music	#29April 1984	6	April 1984 – May 1984	5.3	5.3
Iceblink LuckApple Music	#38September 1990	3	September 1990 – September 1990	2.6	2.6
Aikea-GuineaApple Music	#41March 1985	3	March 1985 – April 1985	2.4	2.4
Blue Beard	#33February 1994	3	February 1994 – March 1994	2.0	2.0
EvangelineApple Music	#34September 1993	2	September 1993 – October 1993	1.7	1.7
TishbiteApple Music	#34March 1996	2	March 1996 – March 1996	1.5	1.4
Sunburst and Snowblind	#86November 1983	7	November 1983 – January 1984	1.1	1.1
Tiny Dynamine	#52November 1985	2	November 1985 – November 1985	0.9	0.9
Love's Easy TearsApple Music	#53October 1986	2	October 1986 – October 1986	0.8	0.8
Otherness	#59October 1995	2	October 1995 – November 1995	0.7	0.7
Twinlights	#59October 1995	2	October 1995 – October 1995	0.7	0.7
ViolaineApple Music	#56July 1996	2	July 1996 – July 1996	0.6	0.6
Echoes in a Shallow Bay	#65December 1985	2	December 1985 – December 1985	0.6	0.6
Winter Wonderland/Frosty the Snowman	#58December 1993	1	December 1993	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Cocteau Twins's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1984 to April 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.