Artists · Global Music Power

Half Man Half Biscuit

Charting Mar 1, 1986 → Apr 10, 2010 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 8 wk

UK Singles Chart · 8 wk Global Music Power · 8 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 0.02%; week of Apr 10, 2010
Career Power: 1; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 0; October 1985 – October 1986
Peak Five Years: 0; October 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 8; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.17%; week of Apr 10, 2010
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 Global Music Power

3 records · 1 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
The Trumpton RiotsApple Music	#82	4	March 1986 – March 1986	0.2	0.2
Joy Division Oven Gloves	#56	1	April 2010	0.2	0.2
Dickie Davis Eyes	#86	3	September 1986 – October 1986	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

Half Man Half Biscuit's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from October 1985 to October 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.