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Artists · UK Singles Chart

New Musik

Charting Sep 30, 1979Aug 17, 1980 · 27 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 27 wk

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Peak Power
0.97%
week of Feb 24, 1980
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
August 1979 – August 1980
Peak Five Years
28
August 1975 – August 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.33%
week of Feb 3, 1980
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

4 records · 28 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
Living by Numbers#13812.3
Sanctuary#3176.8
This World of Water#3176.3
Straight Lines#5352.1

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At their peak

1979 in music

New Musik's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1979 to August 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson79
  2. 2Blondie77
  3. 3The Police73
  4. 4Dr. Hook72
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6Electric Light Orchestra68
  7. 7ABBA62
  8. 8B.A. Robertson60
  9. 9The Gibson Brothers59
  10. 10Gary Numan56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.