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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Roy Wood

Charting Aug 5, 1973Jan 7, 2001 · 43 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 43 wk

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Peak Power
1.81%
week of Feb 10, 1974
Career Power
64
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
49
July 1973 – July 1974
Peak Five Years
61
July 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.79%
week of Jan 20, 1974
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

6 records · 64 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
Forever#81326.9
Going Down the Road#13712.0
Oh What a Shame#13711.8
Dear Elaine#18810.5
I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Christmaswith The Wombles#2231.7
Waterloowith Doctor And The Medics#4551.4

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At their peak

1973 in music

Roy Wood's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1973 to July 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gary Glitter102
  2. 2David Bowie98
  3. 3Mud88
  4. 4Alvin Stardust84
  5. 5Slade83
  6. 6Carpenters82
  7. 7Perry Como74
  8. 8The Wombles74
  9. 9Elton John72
  10. 10Suzi Quatro71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.