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Artists · UK Singles Chart

It Bites

Charting Jun 29, 1986Apr 29, 1990 · 41 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 41 wk

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Peak Power
1.23%
week of Sep 7, 1986
Career Power
26
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
May 1986 – May 1987
Peak Five Years
26
May 1985 – April 1990
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
41
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.96%
week of Aug 17, 1986
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

9 records · 26 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
Calling All the Heroes#61417.9
Whole New World#5441.7
Still Too Young to Remember#6631.0
KISS Like Judas#7641.0
Still Too Young to Remember {1990}#6031.0
Underneath Your Pillow {1990}#7740.9
The Old Man and the Angel#7240.8
Underneath Your Pillow#8130.6
Sister Sarah#7930.6

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At their peak

1986 in music

It Bites's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna107
  2. 2Five Star88
  3. 3The Communards65
  4. 4The Housemartins60
  5. 5Mel & Kim60
  6. 6a-ha58
  7. 7Europe55
  8. 8Janet Jackson54
  9. 9Bon Jovi54
  10. 10Jackie Wilson53

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.