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David Knopfler portraitDavid Knopfler

Charting Oct 16, 1983Oct 30, 1983 · 3 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
0.04%
week of Oct 30, 1983
Career Power
0
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
0
November 1982 – October 1983
Peak Five Years
0
November 1978 – October 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.18%
week of Oct 23, 1983
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

1 song · 0 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
Soul Kissing#8730.5

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At their peak

1982 in music

David Knopfler's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1982 to October 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Wham!98
  2. 2Culture Club86
  3. 3Michael Jackson77
  4. 4David Bowie74
  5. 5Modern Romance71
  6. 6Kajagoogoo68
  7. 7Spandau Ballet68
  8. 8Eurythmics66
  9. 9Madness64
  10. 10Heaven 1762

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.