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Middle of the Road portraitMiddle of the Road

Charting May 30, 1971Aug 27, 1972 · 52 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itUK Singles Chart 52 wk (13 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    13 crowns

    19711972

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Sep–Oct 1971) · First crown Jun 1971

Peak Power
3.18%
week of Oct 24, 1971
Career Power
127
share-weeks
Crowns
13
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
120
May 1971 – May 1972
Peak Five Years
127
September 1967 – August 1972
Top-five weeks
18
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
52
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.24%
week of Sep 19, 1971
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

5 records · 127 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
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep#13453.5
Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum#21733.4
Soley Soley#51225.4
Sacramento#2378.2
Samson and Delilah#2666.1

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At their peak

1971 in music

Middle of the Road's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1971 to May 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Middle of the Road120
  2. 2The New Seekers114
  3. 3T. Rex104
  4. 4Elvis Presley99
  5. 5Slade80
  6. 6Gilbert O'Sullivan72
  7. 7Diana Ross65
  8. 8The Sweet64
  9. 9Dawn62
  10. 10The Supremes56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.