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Junior Murvin portraitJunior Murvin

Charting Apr 27, 1980Jun 22, 1980 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.77%
week of Jun 22, 1980
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
July 1979 – June 1980
Peak Five Years
10
June 1975 – June 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.64%
week of Jun 8, 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

1 song · 10 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
Police and Thieves#23910.2

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At their peak

1979 in music

Junior Murvin's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1979 to June 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Police89
  2. 2Blondie82
  3. 3Michael Jackson76
  4. 4Dr. Hook71
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6ABBA66
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra64
  8. 8The Boomtown Rats61
  9. 9B.A. Robertson58
  10. 10Cliff Richard58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.