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Lynsey de Paul portraitLynsey de Paul

Charting Aug 13, 1972 → May 1, 1977 · 54 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 54 wk

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Oct 1, 1972
Career Power
78
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
33
January 1972 – January 1973
Peak Five Years
78
May 1972 – May 1977
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
54
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.08%
week of Sep 10, 1972
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 · 78 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
Sugar Me#51120.7
No Honestly#71116.2
Won't Somebody Dance with Me#14712.8
Getting a Drag#18812.1
Ooh I Do#2567.7
Rock Bottomwith Mike Moran#1975.2
My Man and Me#4043.3

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At their peak

1972 in music →

Lynsey de Paul's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1972 to January 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Slade107
  2. 2T. Rex106
  3. 3The New Seekers95
  4. 4Michael Jackson94
  5. 5Donny Osmond94
  6. 6Gilbert O'Sullivan88
  7. 7Elvis Presley84
  8. 8The Sweet78
  9. 9David Cassidy76
  10. 10Don McLean71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.