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Elbow Bones and the Racketeers

Charting Dec 11, 1983Apr 29, 1984 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
0.62%
week of Feb 26, 1984
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
May 1983 – April 1984
Peak Five Years
9
May 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.17%
week of Jan 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

2 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
A Night in New York#33138.9
Happy Birthday Baby#9410.1

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At their peak

1983 in music

Elbow Bones and the Racketeers's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1983 to April 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Paul Young85
  2. 2Culture Club84
  3. 3Thompson Twins84
  4. 4Billy Joel80
  5. 5Michael Jackson75
  6. 6Lionel Richie74
  7. 7UB4070
  8. 8Howard Jones69
  9. 9Wham!64
  10. 10Eurythmics59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.