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Artists · UK Singles Chart

John Williams portraitJohn Williams

Charting May 13, 1979 → Dec 26, 2025 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 28 wk, UK Singles Chart 37 wk

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Peak Power
1.05%
week of Jul 8, 1979
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
July 1978 – July 1979
Peak Five Years
26
February 1978 – February 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.32%
week of Jun 24, 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

5 records · 34 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
Cavatina (Original Soundtrack from 'the Deer Hunter')#131114.1
Theme from 'Et (the Extra-Terrestrial)#171011.4
Carol of the Bells#36136.6
Theme from Jurassic Park#4521.3
Somewhere in My Memory (Main Title)#6910.3

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At their peak

1978 in music →

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

  1. 1Boney M113
  2. 2Blondie98
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John74
  4. 4Village People71
  5. 5John Travolta69
  6. 6Bee Gees68
  7. 7Chic65
  8. 8ABBA64
  9. 9The Three Degrees59
  10. 10Darts57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.