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Tenpole Tudor portraitTenpole Tudor

Charting Apr 1, 1979Dec 6, 1981 · 39 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 39 wk

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Peak Power
1.41%
week of Jun 14, 1981
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
35
December 1980 – December 1981
Peak Five Years
46
December 1976 – December 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
39
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.97%
week of May 17, 1981
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

5 records · 46 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
Swords of a Thousand Men#61220.5
Wunderbar#16811.9
Silly Thing/Who Killed Bambiwith The Sex Pistols#687.3
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle/Rock Around the Clockwith The Sex Pistols#2164.2
Throwing My Baby Out with the Bathwater#4952.4

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At their peak

1980 in music

Tenpole Tudor's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1980 to December 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Adam & the Ants134
  2. 2Shakin' Stevens101
  3. 3Madness79
  4. 4Ultravox75
  5. 5Bad Manners73
  6. 6John Lennon70
  7. 7Toyah69
  8. 8Kim Wilde66
  9. 9The Human League65
  10. 10Spandau Ballet65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.