Artists · UK Singles Chart

Placebo

Charting Feb 11, 1996 → Jun 2, 2013 · 81 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 81 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 81 wk Global Music Power · 81 wk

Peak Power: 0.88%; week of Oct 18, 1998
Career Power: 71; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 22; April 1998 – April 1999
Peak Five Years: 47; November 1995 – November 2000
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 81; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.22%; week of Jan 26, 1997
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

20 records · 71 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Nancy BoyApple Music	#4January 1997	6	January 1997 – March 1997	10.1	10.0
Pure MorningApple Music	#4August 1998	6	August 1998 – September 1998	9.0	8.9
You Don't Care About UsApple Music	#5October 1998	7	October 1998 – December 1998	7.0	7.0
Bitter End	#12March 2003	7	March 2003 – May 2003	6.5	6.5
Every You Every MeApple Music	#11January 1999	8	January 1999 – April 1999	5.7	5.7
Taste in MenApple Music	#16July 2000	9	July 2000 – September 2000	5.5	5.4
Bruise PristineApple Music	#14May 1997	6	May 1997 – July 1997	4.1	4.1
Because I Want YouApple Music	#13March 2006	3	March 2006 – March 2006	3.9	3.8
Slave to the WageApple Music	#19October 2000	4	October 2000 – November 2000	3.4	3.4
Twenty YearsApple Music	#18October 2004	3	October 2004 – November 2004	2.9	2.9
English Summer RainApple Music	#23February 2004	2	February 2004 – March 2004	2.3	2.3
Teenage AngstApple Music	#30September 1996	3	September 1996 – October 1996	2.2	2.2
This Picture	#23June 2003	2	June 2003 – June 2003	2.2	2.2
Special Needs	#27September 2003	2	September 2003 – September 2003	1.9	1.9
Running Up That HillApple Music	#44January 2010	5	January 2007 – June 2013	1.8	1.7
Infra-Red	#42June 2006	2	June 2006 – July 2006	1.1	1.1
Medsfeat. Alison Mosshart	#35October 2006	2	October 2006 – October 2006	0.9	1.3
For What It's Worth	#97April 2009	2	April 2009 – June 2009	0.3	0.2
36 Degrees	#80June 1996	1	June 1996	0.2	0.2
Come Home	#86February 1996	1	February 1996	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1998 in music →

Placebo's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1998 to April 1999. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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