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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Skids

Charting Sep 17, 1978Dec 14, 1980 · 60 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 60 wk

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Peak Power
1.40%
week of Jul 1, 1979
Career Power
67
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
53
February 1979 – January 1980
Peak Five Years
67
December 1975 – December 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
60
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.58%
week of Mar 18, 1979
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 · 67 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
Into the Valley#101118.0
Working for the Yankee Dollar#201115.5
Masquerade#14914.6
Circus Games#3276.8
Charade#3164.8
The Saints Are Coming#4831.9
Goodbye Civilian#5241.7
Woman in Winter#4931.6
Animation#5631.4
Sweet Suburbia#7030.9

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At their peak

1979 in music

Skids's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from February 1979 to January 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1ABBA104
  2. 2Blondie88
  3. 3The Police84
  4. 4Electric Light Orchestra69
  5. 5Chic66
  6. 6Roxy Music57
  7. 7The Three Degrees56
  8. 8Donna Summer56
  9. 9Squeeze55
  10. 10Earth, Wind & Fire55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.