Artists · UK Singles Chart

Prince Buster

Charting Feb 23, 1967 → Jun 7, 1998 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 4 wk, UK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 4 wk UK Singles Chart · 17 wk Global Music Power · 20 wk

Peak Power: 1.06%; week of May 4, 1967
Career Power: 21; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 18; May 1966 – May 1967
Peak Five Years: 18; May 1962 – May 1967
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 17; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.97%; week of Apr 6, 1967
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 · 21 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
Al CaponeApple Music	#18April 1967	13	February 1967 – May 1967	17.6	17.4
Whine and Grine	#21March 1998	4	March 1998 – June 1998	3.5	3.5

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At their peak

1966 in music →

Prince Buster's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1966 to May 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.