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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Peter Tosh

Charting Oct 15, 1978Apr 24, 1983 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 9 wk, UK Singles Chart 13 wk

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Peak Power
0.30%
week of Nov 26, 1978
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
December 1977 – November 1978
Peak Five Years
7
April 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.83%
week of Oct 22, 1978
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 · 7 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
(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back#4374.0
Johnny B. Goode#4862.9

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At their peak

1977 in music

Peter Tosh's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1977 to November 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Boney M115
  2. 2Darts109
  3. 3Bee Gees96
  4. 4Donna Summer83
  5. 5Electric Light Orchestra78
  6. 6The Boomtown Rats78
  7. 7Showaddywaddy72
  8. 8Blondie71
  9. 9John Travolta68
  10. 10Rose Royce64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.