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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Nick Straker Band

Charting Jul 27, 1980Nov 23, 1980 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Peak Power
1.03%
week of Sep 28, 1980
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
16
December 1979 – November 1980
Peak Five Years
16
November 1975 – November 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.84%
week of Sep 14, 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

2 records · 16 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
A Walk in the Park#201215.1
Leaving on the Midnight Train#6131.1

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At their peak

1979 in music

Nick Straker Band's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1979 to November 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madness80
  2. 2Blondie68
  3. 3The Police66
  4. 4The Nolans63
  5. 5The Beat62
  6. 6Matchbox59
  7. 7David Bowie59
  8. 8ABBA59
  9. 9Sheena Easton56
  10. 10Diana Ross55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.