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Matchbox

Charting Oct 28, 1979May 30, 1982 · 61 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 61 wk

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Peak Power
1.77%
week of Jan 18, 1981
Career Power
85
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
61
January 1980 – January 1981
Peak Five Years
85
June 1977 – May 1982
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
61
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.18%
week of Oct 26, 1980
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

8 records · 85 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
When You Ask About Love#41222.0
Midnite Dynamos#141218.1
Rockabilly Rebel#181215.6
Over the Rainbow/You Belong to Me#151013.8
Buzz Buzz a Diddle It#2289.9
Babe's in the Wood#4663.4
Love's Made a Fool of You#6331.1
One More Saturday Night#6320.7

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At their peak

1980 in music

Matchbox's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1980 to January 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madness82
  2. 2Blondie72
  3. 3The Nolans65
  4. 4Bad Manners65
  5. 5The Police62
  6. 6Matchbox61
  7. 7UB4061
  8. 8Diana Ross60
  9. 9The Beat60
  10. 10Specials58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.