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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Paul Simpson

Charting Mar 19, 1989Oct 1, 1989 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.48%
week of Apr 30, 1989
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
6
October 1988 – October 1989
Peak Five Years
6
October 1984 – October 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.19%
week of Apr 9, 1989
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 · 6 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
Musical Freedom (Moving on Up) ft Adevafeat. Adeva#2286.4
Everybody's a Starwith Terri Jeffries#8810.1

At their peak

1988 in music

Paul Simpson's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1988 to October 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Kylie Minogue88
  2. 2Jason Donovan76
  3. 3Bobby Brown73
  4. 4London Boys60
  5. 5Inner City58
  6. 6Erasure58
  7. 7Guns N' Roses56
  8. 8Holly Johnson56
  9. 9Madonna56
  10. 10Donna Summer53

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.