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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Gang of Four portraitGang of Four

Charting Jun 10, 1979Jan 27, 1991 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
0.11%
week of Jun 24, 1979
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
July 1978 – June 1979
Peak Five Years
3
September 1978 – September 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.49%
week of Jun 17, 1979
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

4 records · 3 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
At Home He's a Tourist#5831.1
Is It Love#8850.8
I Love a Man in Uniform#6520.7
To Hell with Poverty#10010.1

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At their peak

1978 in music

Gang of Four's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1978 to June 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Boney M122
  2. 2Blondie93
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John80
  4. 4John Travolta76
  5. 5Bee Gees73
  6. 6Village People63
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra62
  8. 8The Three Degrees59
  9. 9ABBA59
  10. 10Darts58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.