Artists · UK Singles Chart

Sly and Robbie

Charting Nov 10, 1985 → Dec 14, 1997 · 27 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 27 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 27 wk Global Music Power · 27 wk

Peak Power: 1.08%; week of May 31, 1987
Career Power: 25; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 16; August 1986 – August 1987
Peak Five Years: 17; August 1982 – August 1987
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 27; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.40%; week of May 10, 1987
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

5 records · 25 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
Boops (Here to Go)Apple Music	#12May 1987	11	March 1987 – June 1987	14.8	14.8
Night Nursefeat. Simply RedApple Music	#13September 1997	8	September 1997 – November 1997	8.0	11.4
FireApple Music	#60August 1987	4	July 1987 – August 1987	1.6	1.6
Make 'Em MoveApple Music	#83November 1985	3	November 1985 – November 1985	0.6	0.6
Penny Loverfeat. Ambilique	#94December 1997	1	December 1997	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1986 in music →

Sly and Robbie's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1986 to August 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.