Artists · UK Singles Chart

Ruby Murray

Charting Dec 3, 1954 → Oct 9, 1959 · 77 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 77 wk (15 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Year: 1955

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
15 crowns
Longest reign 12 weeks (Jan–Apr 1955) · First crown Jan 1955
Global Music Power
15 crowns
19541959
Longest reign 12 weeks (Jan–Apr 1955) · First crown Jan 1955

UK Singles Chart · 77 wk Global Music Power · 77 wk

Peak Power: 5.48%; week of Apr 15, 1955
Career Power: 251; share-weeks
Crowns: 15; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 200; December 1954 – November 1955
Peak Five Years: 251; October 1954 – October 1959
Top-five weeks: 23; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 77; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 8.59%; week of Mar 4, 1955
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

10 records · 251 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
Softly SoftlyApple Music	#1February 1955	23	January 1955 – July 1955	69.6	67.5
EvermoreApple Music	#3July 1955	17	July 1955 – October 1955	48.2	47.2
HeartbeatApple Music	#3January 1955	16	December 1954 – March 1955	38.8	44.9
Goodbye Jimmy GoodbyeApple Music	#10July 1959	14	June 1959 – October 1959	30.8	29.4
I'll Come When You CallApple Music	#6November 1955	7	October 1955 – November 1955	16.4	16.8
Real LoveApple Music	#18December 1958	6	December 1958 – January 1959	10.6	10.2
Let Me Go LoverApple Music	#5March 1955	7	March 1955 – April 1955	10.1	16.8
You Are My First LoveApple Music	#16September 1956	5	August 1956 – October 1956	9.7	9.0
Happy Days and Lonely NightsApple Music	#6February 1955	8	February 1955 – March 1955	9.2	19.5
If Anyone Finds This I Love Youwith Anne WarrenApple Music	#4April 1955	11	March 1955 – May 1955	7.4	28.6

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At their peak

1954 in music →

Ruby Murray's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1954 to November 1955. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.