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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Purple Hearts

Charting Sep 16, 1979Mar 9, 1980 · 5 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 5 wk

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Peak Power
0.13%
week of Sep 30, 1979
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years
2
March 1975 – March 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.51%
week of Sep 23, 1979
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 · 2 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
Millions Like Us#5731.3
Jimmy#6020.8

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At their peak

1979 in music

Purple Hearts's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Police93
  2. 2ABBA87
  3. 3Blondie82
  4. 4Electric Light Orchestra69
  5. 5The Boomtown Rats61
  6. 6Squeeze58
  7. 7Cliff Richard56
  8. 8Chic55
  9. 9Dollar55
  10. 10Roxy Music55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.