Artists · UK Singles Chart

Divine Comedy

Charting Jun 23, 1996 → Aug 20, 2006 · 49 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 49 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 49 wk Global Music Power · 49 wk

Peak Power: 0.78%; week of Feb 28, 1999
Career Power: 46; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 18; September 1998 – September 1999
Peak Five Years: 41; June 1996 – May 2001
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 49; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.76%; week of Jan 31, 1999
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

17 records · 46 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
National ExpressApple Music	#8January 1999	8	January 1999 – April 1999	10.0	9.9
Something for the WeekendApple Music	#14June 1996	5	June 1996 – July 1996	6.7	6.7
Everybody Knows (Except You)Apple Music	#14March 1997	4	March 1997 – April 1997	4.5	4.5
The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen...	#17August 1999	4	August 1999 – September 1999	4.1	4.1
The Frog PrincessApple Music	#15November 1996	2	November 1996 – November 1996	3.1	3.0
Generation SexApple Music	#19September 1998	3	September 1998 – October 1998	3.1	3.0
Come Home Billy Bird	#25March 2004	2	March 2004 – April 2004	2.2	2.2
Love What You DoApple Music	#26March 2001	3	March 2001 – April 2001	2.2	2.1
Becoming More Like AlfieApple Music	#27August 1996	2	August 1996 – August 1996	2.0	2.0
Bad Ambassador	#34May 2001	2	May 2001 – May 2001	1.4	1.4
Gin Soaked Boy	#38November 1999	2	November 1999 – November 1999	1.4	1.4
Absent Friends	#38June 2004	2	June 2004 – June 2004	1.4	1.4
Someday I'll Find You/I've Been to A...with Shola AmaApple Music	#28April 1998	3	April 1998 – April 1998	1.2	2.4
Perfect Lovesong	#42November 2001	2	November 2001 – November 2001	1.0	1.0
The Certainty of ChanceApple Music	#49November 1998	2	November 1998 – November 1998	0.9	0.9
Diva Lady	#52June 2006	2	June 2006 – June 2006	0.7	0.7
To Die a Virgin	#67August 2006	1	August 2006	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

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Divine Comedy's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1998 to September 1999. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.