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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Mari Wilson

Charting Feb 28, 1982May 20, 1984 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 37 wk

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Peak Power
1.23%
week of Oct 24, 1982
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
May 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
33
May 1979 – May 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.77%
week of Oct 3, 1982
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 · 33 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
Just What I Always Wanted#81016.2
Cry Me a River#2777.6
Baby It's True (I Can't Stop Myself)#4263.4
Wonderful#4752.4
(Beware) Boyfriend#5141.9
Beat the Beat#5931.2
Ain't That Peculiar#7830.6

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At their peak

1982 in music

Mari Wilson's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Duran Duran83
  2. 2Madness82
  3. 3Culture Club71
  4. 4Shalamar67
  5. 5Yazoo64
  6. 6The Jam59
  7. 7Kid Creole & The Coconuts59
  8. 8Eddy Grant55
  9. 9Musical Youth55
  10. 10Soft Cell53

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.