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Spitting Image portraitSpitting Image

Charting May 4, 1986Dec 9, 1990 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itUK Singles Chart 20 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    3 crowns

    19861990

    Longest reign 3 weeks (May 1986) · First crown May 1986

Peak Power
1.56%
week of Jun 8, 1986
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
January 1986 – January 1987
Peak Five Years
29
December 1985 – December 1990
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.55%
week of May 25, 1986
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

3 records · 29 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
The Chicken Song#11223.3
Santa Claus Is on the Dole/First Atheist Tabernacle Choir#2265.2
The Christmas Singles#8420.4

At their peak

1986 in music

Spitting Image's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1986 to January 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna117
  2. 2Five Star95
  3. 3a-ha83
  4. 4The Bangles65
  5. 5The Communards56
  6. 6The Housemartins55
  7. 7The Status Quo55
  8. 8Pet Shop Boys55
  9. 9Billy Ocean55
  10. 10Janet Jackson52

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.