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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Generation X

Charting Sep 11, 1977Feb 8, 1981 · 31 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 31 wk

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Peak Power
1.05%
week of May 6, 1979
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
July 1978 – July 1979
Peak Five Years
30
February 1976 – February 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.49%
week of Feb 11, 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

6 records · 30 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
King Rocker#11912.9
Valley of the Dolls#2378.4
Your Generation#3643.8
Dancing with Myself#6062.3
Ready Steady Go#4732.0
Friday's Angels#6220.8

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At their peak

1978 in music

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

  1. 1Boney M119
  2. 2Blondie95
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John79
  4. 4John Travolta74
  5. 5Bee Gees71
  6. 6Village People65
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra62
  8. 8The Three Degrees59
  9. 9ABBA59
  10. 10Chic57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.