Artists · UK Singles Chart

Manic Street Preachers

Charting Jan 27, 1991 → Sep 15, 2013 · 215 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 215 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
3 crowns
19912013
First crown Aug 1998

UK Singles Chart · 215 wk Global Music Power · 215 wk

Peak Power: 1.18%; week of May 26, 1996
Career Power: 223; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 43; August 1998 – August 1999
Peak Five Years: 108; April 1996 – April 2001
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 215; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.56%; week of Mar 4, 2001
Comebacks: 2; Sep 1998 · May 2007, after 8 quiet years

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

41 records · 223 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
A Design for LifeApple Music	#2April 1996	14	April 1996 – August 1996	18.6	18.5
If You Tolerate This Your Children...	#1August 1998	17	August 1998 – January 1999	17.2	17.4
Your Love Alone Is Not EnoughApple Music	#2May 2007	12	April 2007 – August 2007	16.6	16.2
The Masses Against the Classes	#1January 2000	9	January 2000 – March 2000	10.9	10.9
You Stole the Sun from My HeartApple Music	#5March 1999	12	March 1999 – June 1999	10.8	10.6
The EverlastingApple Music	#11December 1998	12	December 1998 – March 1999	9.5	9.5
Motorcycle EmptinessApple Music	#17June 1992	8	June 1992 – September 1997	8.5	8.5
So Why So Sad	#8March 2001	16	March 2001 – June 2001	8.4	8.5
Everything Must GoApple Music	#5July 1996	10	July 1996 – October 1996	8.1	8.2
AustraliaApple Music	#7December 1996	9	December 1996 – March 1997	8.1	7.8
Kevin CarterApple Music	#9October 1996	8	October 1996 – December 1996	6.3	6.5
The Love of Richard NixonApple Music	#2October 2004	5	October 2004 – December 2004	6.3	6.3
There by the Grace of GodApple Music	#6October 2002	9	October 2002 – January 2003	6.2	6.2
Empty SoulsApple Music	#2January 2005	4	January 2005 – February 2005	6.1	5.9
Theme from MASH/(Everything I Do) I Do It for Youwith Fatima MansionsApple Music	#7September 1992	6	September 1992 – October 1992	6.0	12.1
TsunamiApple Music	#11July 1999	8	July 1999 – September 1999	5.8	5.8
You Love Us {1992}	#16February 1992	4	January 1992 – February 1992	5.1	5.1
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)Apple Music	#22July 1993	5	July 1993 – August 1993	5.0	5.0
Slash 'N' BurnApple Music	#20March 1992	6	March 1992 – September 1997	4.8	5.3
Ocean Spray	#15June 2001	8	June 2001 – August 2001	4.5	4.5
From Despair to WhereApple Music	#25June 1993	4	June 1993 – June 1993	4.3	4.3
Faster/P.C.P.Apple Music	#16June 1994	5	June 1994 – July 1994	3.9	3.9
Roses in the HospitalApple Music	#15September 1993	3	September 1993 – October 1993	3.8	3.8
AutumnsongApple Music	#10July 2007	3	July 2007 – August 2007	3.7	3.6
RevolApple Music	#22August 1994	3	August 1994 – August 1994	3.7	3.7
Love's Sweet Exile/RepeatApple Music	#26November 1991	3	November 1991 – November 1991	3.5	3.5
She Is SufferingApple Music	#25October 1994	3	October 1994 – October 1994	3.4	3.4
Found That Soul	#9March 2001	6	March 2001 – May 2001	3.3	5.0
Let Robeson Sing	#19September 2001	4	September 2001 – October 2001	3.0	3.0
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love	#28September 2010	4	September 2010 – October 2010	3.0	2.8
Little Baby NothingApple Music	#29November 1992	5	November 1992 – September 1997	3.0	3.4
Stay BeautifulApple Music	#40August 1991	5	August 1991 – September 1997	2.5	3.1
UmbrellaApple Music	#47March 2008	5	March 2008 – April 2008	2.2	2.2
Indian Summer	#22October 2007	1	October 2007	1.8	1.7
Life Becoming a LandslideApple Music	#36February 1994	2	February 1994 – February 1994	1.6	1.6
You Love UsApple Music	#49September 1997	4	May 1991 – September 1997	1.3	1.6
Some Kind of Nothingness	#44December 2010	1	December 2010	0.8	0.8
Postcards from a Young Man	#54March 2011	1	March 2011	0.6	0.6
Motown JunkApple Music	#94January 1991	2	January 1991 – February 1991	0.3	0.3
Show Me the Wonder	#77September 2013	1	September 2013	0.3	0.3
Love's Sweet ExileApple Music	#55September 1997	2	September 1997 – September 1997	0.1	0.7

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At their peak

1998 in music →

Manic Street Preachers's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1998 to August 1999. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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