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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Mental as Anything

Charting Jan 18, 1987Jan 24, 1988 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Peak Power
1.61%
week of Apr 5, 1987
Career Power
26
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
26
January 1987 – January 1988
Peak Five Years
26
January 1983 – January 1988
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.29%
week of Mar 1, 1987
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 · 26 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
Live It Up#31525.0
You're So Strong#8230.5
He's Just No Good for You#8820.3

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At their peak

1987 in music

Mental as Anything's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1987 to January 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna83
  2. 2Rick Astley80
  3. 3Pet Shop Boys71
  4. 4Whitney Houston67
  5. 5Terence Trent D'Arby62
  6. 6Wet Wet Wet61
  7. 7Five Star59
  8. 8T'Pau59
  9. 9George Michael56
  10. 10Johnny Hates Jazz55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.