Artists · UK Singles Chart

Stiff Little Fingers

Charting Sep 23, 1979 → Feb 13, 1994 · 44 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 44 wk

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Photo: Shirley Sexton, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

UK Singles Chart · 44 wk Global Music Power · 44 wk

Peak Power: 0.95%; week of Mar 23, 1980
Career Power: 31; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 20; August 1979 – August 1980
Peak Five Years: 31; February 1978 – February 1983
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 44; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.17%; week of Mar 2, 1980
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

11 records · 31 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
At the EdgeApple Music	#15March 1980	9	February 1980 – April 1980	12.3	12.3
ListenApple Music	#33January 1982	6	January 1982 – February 1982	5.4	5.3
Nobody's Hero/Tin SoldiersApple Music	#36May 1980	5	May 1980 – June 1980	3.7	3.7
Just Fade AwayApple Music	#47March 1981	6	March 1981 – April 1981	2.9	2.9
Straw DogsApple Music	#44October 1979	4	September 1979 – October 1979	2.5	2.5
Back to FrontApple Music	#49August 1980	4	July 1980 – August 1980	1.9	1.9
Silver LiningApple Music	#68June 1981	3	May 1981 – June 1981	1.0	1.0
Bits of KidsApple Music	#73September 1982	2	September 1982 – September 1982	0.6	0.6
The Wild Rover Ep	#83March 1989	2	March 1989 – March 1989	0.3	0.3
The Price of Admission	#95February 1983	2	February 1983 – February 1983	0.3	0.3
Can't Believe in You	#97February 1994	1	February 1994	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1979 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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