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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Father Abraphart and the Smurps

Charting Dec 10, 1978 → Dec 31, 1978 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.14%
week of Dec 31, 1978
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
January 1978 – December 1978
Peak Five Years
2
January 1974 – December 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.49%
week of Dec 17, 1978
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 · 2 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
Lick a Smurp for Christmas#5841.6

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At their peak

1978 in music →

Father Abraphart and the Smurps's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1978 to December 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Boney M122
  2. 2Darts104
  3. 3Bee Gees95
  4. 4Blondie82
  5. 5John Travolta82
  6. 6The Boomtown Rats77
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra74
  8. 8Olivia Newton-John71
  9. 9Showaddywaddy67
  10. 10Donna Summer66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.