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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Joy Division

Charting Jun 22, 1980Jul 24, 2020 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.00%
week of Aug 3, 1980
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
August 1979 – August 1980
Peak Five Years
21
January 1979 – January 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.32%
week of Jul 20, 1980
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 · 31 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
Love Will Tear Us Apart#131718.3
Love Will Tear Us Apart {1983}#1998.1
Atmosphere#3454.2
The Peel Sessions#9620.3
The Peel Sessions {1987}#9810.1

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At their peak

1979 in music

Joy Division's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1979 to August 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson79
  2. 2Blondie77
  3. 3The Police73
  4. 4Dr. Hook72
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6Electric Light Orchestra68
  7. 7ABBA62
  8. 8B.A. Robertson60
  9. 9The Gibson Brothers59
  10. 10Gary Numan56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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