Artists · UK Singles Chart

Janet Kay

Charting Jun 3, 1979 → Sep 16, 1990 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 23 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 23 wk Global Music Power · 23 wk

Peak Power: 1.68%; week of Aug 5, 1979
Career Power: 29; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 25; September 1978 – September 1979
Peak Five Years: 25; September 1974 – September 1979
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 23; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.40%; week of Jul 8, 1979
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

4 records · 29 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Silly GamesApple Music	#2July 1979	14	June 1979 – September 1979	25.2	25.1
Silly Games ft Janet Kayfeatured credit · with Lindy Layton	#22August 1990	7	August 1990 – September 1990	2.4	8.7
Silly Games {1990}	#62August 1990	3	August 1990 – August 1990	0.9	1.0
Eternally GratefulApple Music	#86September 1984	2	September 1984 – September 1984	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1978 in music →

Janet Kay's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1978 to September 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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