Artists · UK Singles Chart

Mike Oldfield

Charting Jul 7, 1974 → Apr 25, 1999 · 128 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 16 wk, UK Singles Chart 128 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 16 wk UK Singles Chart · 128 wk Global Music Power · 144 wk

Peak Power: 1.79%; week of Aug 14, 1983
Career Power: 135; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 33; February 1983 – January 1984
Peak Five Years: 67; February 1975 – January 1980
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 128; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.28%; week of Jan 2, 1977
Comebacks: 1; July 1983

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	May 1, 1977	Jul 3, 1983	321	109	1.76%	1.06%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

27 records · 135 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 — a #1 week is 3.5 whoever holds it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Moonlight ShadowApple Music	#4June 1983	19	May 1983 – September 1983	31.4	31.3
PortsmouthApple Music	#3January 1977	12	November 1976 – February 1977	27.0	26.8
In Dulci Jubilo/On HorsebackApple Music	#4January 1976	9	December 1975 – February 1976	18.6	18.6
Blue PeterApple Music	#19January 1980	9	December 1979 – January 1980	10.3	10.2
Guilty	#22May 1979	8	April 1979 – June 1979	10.1	10.1
SentinelApple Music	#10October 1992	5	October 1992 – November 1992	7.0	7.0
Theme from Tubular Bells	#31July 1974	6	July 1974 – August 1974	6.0	6.0
Family Man	#45June 1982	6	June 1982 – July 1982	3.5	3.5
Five Miles Out	#43March 1982	5	March 1982 – April 1982	3.3	3.3
Tattoo	#33December 1992	4	December 1992 – January 1993	3.0	3.0
Sentinel (Single Restructure)Apple Music	#16September 1992	1	September 1992	2.1	2.1
Hibernaculum	#47December 1994	4	December 1994 – January 1995	1.9	1.8
To Francewith Maggie Reilly	#48July 1984	7	June 1984 – August 1984	1.9	3.7
Pictures in the Darkwith Aled Jones	#50December 1985	7	December 1985 – January 1986	1.6	3.2
Crime of Passion	#61January 1984	4	January 1984 – January 1984	1.4	1.4
The Bell (MC Viv Stanshall)	#50April 1993	2	April 1993 – April 1993	1.1	1.1
Moonlight Shadow {1993}	#52October 1993	2	October 1993 – October 1993	0.9	0.9
Take Four (Ep)	#72December 1978	3	December 1978 – December 1978	0.9	0.9
Let There Be Light	#51August 1995	2	August 1995 – September 1995	0.9	0.9
Far Above the Clouds	#53April 1999	2	April 1999 – April 1999	0.8	0.8
Women of Ireland	#70November 1997	2	November 1997 – November 1997	0.5	0.5
Shadow on the Wall	#95September 1983	2	September 1983 – September 1983	0.3	0.3
Earth Moving	#93July 1989	2	July 1989 – October 1989	0.3	0.3
Tricks of the Light	#91September 1984	1	September 1984	0.2	0.2
Man in the Rain	#98October 1998	1	October 1998	0.1	0.1
Shinewith Jon Anderson	#100May 1986	2	May 1986 – May 1986	0.1	0.2
Islandswith Bonnie Tyler	#100September 1987	1	September 1987	0.1	0.1

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