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Imagination portraitImagination

Charting May 10, 1981Jun 25, 1989 · 119 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 119 wk

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Peak Power
2.00%
week of Apr 18, 1982
Career Power
143
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
84
May 1981 – May 1982
Peak Five Years
141
September 1980 – September 1985
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
119
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.40%
week of Mar 28, 1982
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

17 records · 143 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
Body Talk#41829.5
Just an Illusion#21123.4
Flashback#161519.0
Music and Lights#5916.6
Thank You My Love#221512.9
In and Out of Love#16912.7
In the Heat of the Night#22810.4
Looking at Midnight#2976.7
Changes#3186.4
New Dimension#5631.4
Instinctual#6230.9
State of Love#6730.9
Found My Girl#8340.7
Sunshine#8740.6
The Last Time#9320.3
Last Days of Summer#9910.1
Love's Taking Over#10010.1

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At their peak

1981 in music

Imagination's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1981 to May 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Human League100
  2. 2Shakin' Stevens97
  3. 3Adam & the Ants88
  4. 4Bucks Fizz87
  5. 5Imagination84
  6. 6Soft Cell80
  7. 7Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark66
  8. 8Madness65
  9. 9Dollar62
  10. 10Depeche Mode61

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.