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Saxon

Charting Mar 15, 1980 → Apr 30, 1988 · 73 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 73 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 73 wk Global Music Power · 73 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.42%; week of Jul 19, 1980
Career Power: 19; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 9; May 1980 – May 1981
Peak Five Years: 17; March 1979 – February 1984
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 73; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.74%; week of Apr 18, 1981
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 Global Music Power

18 records · 19 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
747 (Strangers in the Night)Apple Music	#13	9	June 1980 – August 1980	4.0	4.0
Wheels of SteelApple Music	#20	11	March 1980 – May 1980	3.9	3.8
And the Bands Played OnApple Music	#12	8	April 1981 – May 1981	3.8	3.8
Never SurrenderApple Music	#18	6	July 1981 – August 1981	2.5	2.5
Power and the GloryApple Music	#32	5	April 1983 – May 1983	1.2	1.2
Ride Like the WindApple Music	#52	5	February 1988 – March 1988	0.7	0.7
NightmareApple Music	#50	4	July 1983 – August 1983	0.5	0.5
Back on the StreetsApple Music	#75	6	August 1985 – September 1985	0.4	0.4
Princess of the NightApple Music	#57	3	October 1981 – November 1981	0.3	0.3
Strong Arm of the LawApple Music	#63	3	November 1980 – December 1980	0.3	0.3
Sailing to AmericaApple Music	#81	4	January 1984 – February 1984	0.2	0.2
Waiting for the NightApple Music	#66	2	August 1986 – August 1986	0.2	0.2
I Can't Wait AnymoreApple Music	#71	2	April 1988 – May 1988	0.2	0.2
Rock 'N' Roll GypsyApple Music	#72	2	March 1986 – March 1986	0.2	0.2
Backs to the WallApple Music	#64	2	June 1980 – June 1980	0.1	0.2
Big Teaser/Rainbow ThemeApple Music	#66	2	June 1980 – June 1980	0.1	0.2
Rock the NationsApple Music	#80	2	November 1986 – November 1986	0.1	0.1
Northern Lady	#91	1	January 1987	0.0	0.0

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At their peak

Saxon's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from May 1980 to May 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.