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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Marc Bolan

Charting Feb 3, 1974Oct 4, 1981 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 13 wk

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Peak Power
0.42%
week of Mar 3, 1974
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
March 1973 – March 1974
Peak Five Years
5
March 1969 – March 1974
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.17%
week of Feb 10, 1974
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

3 records · 9 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
Teenage Dreamwith T. Rex#1354.8
Return of the Electric Warrior (Ep)#5042.0
You Scare Me to Death#5141.8

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At their peak

1973 in music

Marc Bolan's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1973 to March 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1David Bowie111
  2. 2Gary Glitter108
  3. 3Perry Como103
  4. 4Slade92
  5. 5Mud89
  6. 6Wizzard86
  7. 7Donny Osmond83
  8. 8Suzi Quatro80
  9. 9The Sweet77
  10. 10Gilbert O'Sullivan77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.