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Patti Smith portraitPatti Smith

Charting May 1, 1983Aug 25, 1996 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.07%
week of May 29, 1983
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
June 1982 – May 1983
Peak Five Years
1
June 1978 – May 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.22%
week of Aug 18, 1996
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

3 records · 1 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
Because the Night#8550.8
Summer Cannibals#8220.4
People Have the Power#9710.1

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At their peak

1982 in music

Patti Smith's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1982 to May 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Culture Club79
  2. 2Duran Duran78
  3. 3Madness72
  4. 4Dexys Midnight Runners67
  5. 5Tears For Fears61
  6. 6The Jam59
  7. 7Shalamar59
  8. 8Wham!59
  9. 9Michael Jackson59
  10. 10Yazoo57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.