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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Symposium

Charting Nov 3, 1996Jul 19, 1998 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.28%
week of Sep 7, 1997
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
March 1997 – March 1998
Peak Five Years
9
July 1993 – July 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.54%
week of Mar 16, 1997
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

7 records · 9 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
Fairweather Friend#2532.6
Farewell to Twilight#2522.2
The Answer to Why I Hate You#3221.6
Bury You#4121.1
Average Man#4520.9
Blue#4820.9
Drink the Sunshine#8920.3

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At their peak

1997 in music

Symposium's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1997 to March 1998. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Backstreet Boys79
  2. 2Spice Girls76
  3. 3Aqua66
  4. 4All Saints66
  5. 5Robbie Williams62
  6. 6The Verve62
  7. 7Boyzone62
  8. 8Will Smith62
  9. 9Oasis59
  10. 10Elton John58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.