Artists · UK Singles Chart

Mud

Charting Mar 4, 1973 → Dec 26, 2025 · 167 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 167 wk (10 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Year: 1975

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
10 crowns
19732025
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 1974) · First crown Jan 1974

UK Singles Chart · 167 wk Global Music Power · 167 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.64%; week of Feb 24, 1974
Career Power: 290; share-weeks
Crowns: 10; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 99; December 1974 – November 1975
Peak Five Years: 277; January 1972 – January 1977
Top-five weeks: 26; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 167; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.55%; week of Jan 20, 1974
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

16 records · 290 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Lonely This ChristmasApple Music	#1December 1974	40	November 1974 – December 2025	37.2	36.6
Tiger FeetApple Music	#1January 1974	11	January 1974 – March 1974	29.0	28.7
Dyna-MiteApple Music	#4November 1973	12	October 1973 – January 1974	27.5	27.2
Oh BoyApple Music	#1April 1975	9	April 1975 – June 1975	22.2	22.5
The Secrets That You KeepApple Music	#3March 1975	9	February 1975 – April 1975	20.4	20.3
The Cat Crept InApple Music	#2April 1974	9	April 1974 – June 1974	20.3	20.0
CrazyApple Music	#12April 1973	12	March 1973 – May 1973	19.4	19.2
Lean on Me	#7December 1976	9	November 1976 – January 1977	19.0	18.8
RocketApple Music	#6August 1974	9	July 1974 – September 1974	18.4	18.4
HypnosisApple Music	#16August 1973	13	June 1973 – September 1973	17.5	17.4
Show Me You're a WomanApple Music	#8December 1975	7	November 1975 – January 1976	14.6	14.6
Moonshine SallyApple Music	#10June 1975	7	June 1975 – July 1975	14.2	14.1
Shake It DownApple Music	#12May 1976	8	May 1976 – June 1976	13.2	13.1
L-L-LucyApple Music	#10October 1975	6	September 1975 – November 1975	11.9	11.9
One Night	#32August 1975	4	July 1975 – August 1975	3.9	4.2
Lonely This Christmas {1985}	#61December 1985	4	December 1985 – December 1985	1.3	1.3

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At their peak

1974 in music →

Mud's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1974 to November 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.