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Girlschool portraitGirlschool

Charting Jul 27, 1980Apr 4, 1982 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 24 wk

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Peak Power
0.77%
week of May 3, 1981
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
July 1980 – July 1981
Peak Five Years
19
April 1977 – April 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.58%
week of Feb 22, 1981
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

5 records · 19 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
St Valentine's Day Massacre (Ep)with Motorhead#587.7
Hit and Run#3265.4
Race with the Devil#4963.1
C'Mon Let's Go#4231.9
Don't Call It Love#5820.9

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At their peak

1980 in music

Girlschool's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1980 to July 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Adam & the Ants124
  2. 2Madness92
  3. 3John Lennon81
  4. 4Bad Manners78
  5. 5Shakin' Stevens75
  6. 6Sheena Easton75
  7. 7Odyssey72
  8. 8Diana Ross69
  9. 9Stevie Wonder66
  10. 10Ultravox63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.