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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Goons

Charting Jun 29, 1956Sep 16, 1973 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 30 wk

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Peak Power
2.35%
week of Nov 2, 1956
Career Power
69
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
52
November 1955 – November 1956
Peak Five Years
52
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.68%
week of Sep 28, 1956
Comebacks
1
Aug 1973, after 17 quiet years

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

3 records · 69 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
The Ying Tong Song/Bloodnok's Rock 'N' Roll Call#31027.4
I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas/Bluebottle Blues#41024.4
Ying Tong Song#91016.9

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At their peak

1955 in music

Goons's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1955 to November 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets206
  2. 2Lonnie Donegan121
  3. 3Elvis Presley120
  4. 4Pat Boone102
  5. 5Winifred Atwell96
  6. 6Teresa Brewer82
  7. 7David Whitfield79
  8. 8Ronnie Hilton78
  9. 9Perry Como72
  10. 10Nat King Cole68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.