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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Jo Stafford

Charting Nov 14, 1952Feb 3, 1956 · 26 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 26 wk

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Peak Power
2.49%
week of Mar 6, 1953
Career Power
71
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
56
November 1952 – November 1953
Peak Five Years
71
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
26
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.60%
week of Dec 19, 1952
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 · 71 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
You Belong to Me#11953.2
Suddenly There's a Valley#12612.9
Make Love to Me#812.8
Jambalaya#1122.3

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At their peak

1952 in music

Jo Stafford's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1952 to November 1953. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Frankie Laine177
  2. 2Guy Mitchell142
  3. 3Nat King Cole122
  4. 4Eddie Fisher122
  5. 5Al Martino94
  6. 6Mantovani81
  7. 7Frank Chacksfield77
  8. 8Mario Lanza65
  9. 9Ron Goodwin63
  10. 10Jo Stafford56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.