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Mardi Gras

Charting Jul 30, 1972Sep 24, 1972 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.88%
week of Sep 17, 1972
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
12
October 1971 – September 1972
Peak Five Years
12
October 1967 – September 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.89%
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

1 song · 12 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
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby#19912.2

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At their peak

1971 in music

Mardi Gras's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1971 to September 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The New Seekers112
  2. 2Slade107
  3. 3T. Rex102
  4. 4Elvis Presley83
  5. 5Gilbert O'Sullivan77
  6. 6Don McLean72
  7. 7Middle of the Road72
  8. 8Michael Jackson67
  9. 9Rod Stewart61
  10. 10The Sweet60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.