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Hawkwind portraitHawkwind

Charting Jun 25, 1972Sep 4, 2005 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 33 wk

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Peak Power
1.91%
week of Sep 10, 1972
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
October 1971 – October 1972
Peak Five Years
34
August 1968 – August 1973
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.30%
week of Aug 13, 1972
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

8 records · 40 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
Silver Machine#31531.0
Silver Machine {1978}#3453.8
Urban Guerilla#3932.6
Shot Down in the Night#5931.2
Silver Machine {1983}#6730.9
Night of the Hawks#8620.3
Spirit of the Age#8410.2
Quark Strangeness and Charm#8810.2

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At their peak

1971 in music

Hawkwind's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1971 to October 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Slade110
  2. 2The New Seekers110
  3. 3T. Rex106
  4. 4Elvis Presley84
  5. 5Gilbert O'Sullivan77
  6. 6Don McLean72
  7. 7Michael Jackson69
  8. 8Middle of the Road68
  9. 9The Sweet63
  10. 10Rod Stewart59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.