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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Ray Martin

Charting Nov 14, 1952Aug 10, 1956 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
1.06%
week of Jan 1, 1954
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
12
January 1953 – January 1954
Peak Five Years
25
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.03%
week of Dec 18, 1953
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

3 records · 25 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
Swedish Rhapsody#4411.5
Blue Tango#849.4
The Carousel Waltz#2434.4

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At their peak

1953 in music

Ray Martin's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1953 to January 1954. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Frankie Laine200
  2. 2Guy Mitchell153
  3. 3Eddie Fisher140
  4. 4Mantovani104
  5. 5Nat King Cole100
  6. 6Frank Chacksfield77
  7. 7Al Martino67
  8. 8Ron Goodwin63
  9. 9Muriel Smith50
  10. 10Winifred Atwell50

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.