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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Sweet People

Charting Sep 28, 1980Sep 13, 1987 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
1.07%
week of Nov 2, 1980
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
November 1979 – November 1980
Peak Five Years
14
November 1975 – November 1980
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.19%
week of Oct 12, 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

2 records · 15 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
Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (and the Birds Were Singing)#4814.0
Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (and the Birds Were Singing) {1987}#7361.3

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At their peak

1979 in music

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

  1. 1Madness80
  2. 2The Police70
  3. 3Blondie66
  4. 4The Nolans63
  5. 5The Beat62
  6. 6Matchbox60
  7. 7ABBA57
  8. 8David Bowie56
  9. 9Michael Jackson55
  10. 10Sheena Easton55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.