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Tears For Fears

Charting Sep 26, 1982 → Jan 5, 2024 · 190 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 115 wk (6 at #1), UK Singles Chart 190 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 115 wk UK Singles Chart · 190 wk Global Music Power · 246 wk

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Peak Power: 2.45%; week of May 12, 1985
Career Power: 234; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 89; August 1984 – August 1985
Peak Five Years: 182; August 1981 – July 1986
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 190; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Apr 14, 1985
Comebacks: 2; December 1984, September 1989

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Aug 21, 1983	Dec 30, 1984	71	29	1.88%	1.17%
After absence	Dec 1, 1985	Sep 17, 1989	197	160	2.45%	1.05%

Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

23 records · 234 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is the share of each week's Power Share this song earned the artist; a featured credit earns its reduced share. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower
Everybody Wants To Rule The WorldApple Music	#2April 1985	56	March 1985 – January 2024	37.9
ShoutApple Music	#4January 1985	20	November 1984 – April 1985	32.3
Mad WorldApple Music	#3October 1982	18	September 1982 – October 2010	27.9
Change	#4February 1983	9	January 1983 – March 1983	19.3
Sowing The Seeds Of LoveApple Music	#5September 1989	9	August 1989 – October 1989	17.9
Pale Shelter	#5May 1983	8	April 1983 – June 1983	15.2
Head Over HeelsApple Music	#12June 1985	9	June 1985 – August 1985	15.1
Mothers TalkApple Music	#14September 1984	9	August 1984 – October 1984	11.7
Everybody Wants to Run the World	#5June 1986	8	May 1986 – July 1986	11.6
The Way You Are	#24January 1984	8	November 1983 – January 1984	10.2
Woman In ChainsApple Music	#26November 1989	9	November 1989 – January 1990	6.6
Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)	#17February 1992	5	February 1992 – March 1992	6.4
Break It Down AgainApple Music	#20May 1993	5	May 1993 – June 1993	6.0
I Believe (a Soulful Re-Recording)	#23October 1985	5	October 1985 – November 1985	4.7
Advice For The Young At Heart	#36February 1990	4	February 1990 – March 1990	3.5
Raoul and the Kings of Spain	#31October 1995	3	October 1995 – October 1995	2.3
Suffer the Children	#52September 1985	5	August 1985 – September 1985	2.1
Closest Thing to Heaven	#40February 2005	2	February 2005 – March 2005	1.3
Pale Shelter {1985}	#73September 1985	4	August 1985 – September 1985	0.7
Woman in Chains {1992}	#57April 1992	1	April 1992	0.5
God's Mistake	#61June 1996	1	June 1996	0.4
Famous Last Words	#83August 1990	2	August 1990 – August 1990	0.3
Cold	#72July 1993	1	July 1993	0.3

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