Artists · UK Singles Chart

Specials

Charting Oct 21, 1979 → Mar 31, 1996 · 67 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 67 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
3 crowns
19791996
First crown Feb 1980

UK Singles Chart · 67 wk Global Music Power · 67 wk

Peak Power: 2.05%; week of Aug 9, 1981
Career Power: 106; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 59; October 1979 – October 1980
Peak Five Years: 105; September 1976 – September 1981
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 67; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Jul 5, 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 UK Singles Chart

8 records · 106 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
Ghost TownApple Music	#1July 1981	14	June 1981 – September 1981	32.2	32.0
Too Much Too Young (the Special AKA Live! Ep)Apple Music	#1January 1980	10	January 1980 – March 1980	21.3	21.2
Rat Race/Rude Boys Outa JailApple Music	#5June 1980	9	May 1980 – July 1980	18.1	18.0
Do Nothing/Maggie's Farm ft Rico with the Ice Rink String Soundsfeat. Rico, the Ice Rink String SoundsApple Music	#4January 1981	10	December 1980 – February 1981	12.8	17.7
Stereotype/International Jet SetApple Music	#6October 1980	8	September 1980 – November 1980	10.8	10.7
A Message to You Rudy/Nite Klub ft Rico+feat. RicoApple Music	#10November 1979	14	October 1979 – January 1980	10.4	14.9
Hypocrite	#66February 1996	2	February 1996 – February 1996	0.5	0.5
Pressure Dropfeat. S Staple, Kendell	#100March 1996	1	March 1996	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1979 in music →

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

1Madness77
2The Police69
3The Jam65
4Dr. Hook65
5Queen64
6ABBA63
7Michael Jackson63
8The Beat62
9Blondie61
10Specials59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.