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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Late Show

Charting Feb 25, 1979Apr 1, 1979 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 6 wk

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Peak Power
0.32%
week of Apr 1, 1979
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
April 1978 – April 1979
Peak Five Years
4
April 1974 – April 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.91%
week of Mar 18, 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

1 song · 4 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
Bristol Stomp#4063.9

At their peak

1978 in music

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

  1. 1Boney M135
  2. 2Bee Gees98
  3. 3Blondie92
  4. 4Olivia Newton-John89
  5. 5John Travolta85
  6. 6Darts84
  7. 7The Boomtown Rats76
  8. 8Father Abraham and the Smurfs65
  9. 9Chic64
  10. 10Showaddywaddy62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.