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Skatalites

Charting Apr 20, 1967Apr 16, 1989 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.44%
week of May 25, 1967
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
June 1966 – May 1967
Peak Five Years
5
June 1962 – May 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.05%
week of May 11, 1967
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 · 6 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
Guns of Navarone#3665.4
Pressure Drop Epwith Maytals, Pioneers, Jimmy Cliff#8620.1

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At their peak

1966 in music

Skatalites's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1966 to May 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Troggs109
  2. 2Tom Jones100
  3. 3The Beach Boys94
  4. 4Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich94
  5. 5The Beatles85
  6. 6Four Tops83
  7. 7The Seekers82
  8. 8Jim Reeves81
  9. 9Manfred Mann81
  10. 10Small Faces71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.