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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

Charting Nov 22, 1967Apr 17, 1968 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.55%
week of Jan 31, 1968
Career Power
27
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
27
April 1967 – April 1968
Peak Five Years
27
May 1963 – April 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.76%
week of Jan 10, 1968
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 · 27 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
Kites#91325.1
For Whom the Bell Tolls#4332.2

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At their peak

1967 in music

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1967 to April 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Engelbert Humperdinck180
  2. 2Tom Jones127
  3. 3The Beatles110
  4. 4Bee Gees109
  5. 5The Monkees107
  6. 6The Tremeloes90
  7. 7Cliff Richard83
  8. 8Traffic79
  9. 9Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich79
  10. 10The Beach Boys77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.