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Charting Dec 13, 1987 → Jan 15, 1995 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 15 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 15 wkUK Singles Chart · 34 wkGlobal Music Power · 46 wk
Peak Power
0.66%
week of Feb 4, 1990
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
October 1989 – October 1990
Peak Five Years
29
January 1990 – January 1995
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.33%
week of Jan 21, 1990
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

10 records · 34 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
No More Mr. Nice Guy#1368.1
Hangar 18#2644.3
Symphony Of Destruction#1534.2
Skin O' My Teeth#1333.5
Train of Consequences#2233.3
Sweating Bullets#2633.2
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due#2433.1
Anarchy in the UK#4531.8
Mary Jane#4621.3
Wake Up Dead#6541.1

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At their peak

1989 in music →

Megadeth's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1989 to October 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1New Kids On The Block120
  2. 2Madonna77
  3. 3Snap!68
  4. 4Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers66
  5. 5Adamski64
  6. 6Kylie Minogue62
  7. 7Jason Donovan59
  8. 8Phil Collins55
  9. 9Erasure53
  10. 10The Stone Roses52

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.