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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Kurtis Blow

Charting Dec 9, 1979May 17, 1998 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 12 wk, UK Singles Chart 28 wk

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Peak Power
0.63%
week of Feb 23, 1986
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
November 1985 – November 1986
Peak Five Years
10
November 1981 – November 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.60%
week of Feb 2, 1986
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

7 records · 18 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
If I Ruled the World#24108.5
Christmas Rappin#3064.9
The Breaks#4742.2
I'm Chillin#6431.0
Party Time {1985}#6720.6
Party Time#9220.3
The Breaksfeatured credit · with Nadanuf#7910.1

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At their peak

1985 in music

Kurtis Blow's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1985 to November 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna120
  2. 2Five Star88
  3. 3a-ha84
  4. 4Pet Shop Boys73
  5. 5Whitney Houston72
  6. 6Wham!59
  7. 7Amazulu56
  8. 8The Bangles54
  9. 9Queen54
  10. 10Billy Ocean53

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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