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The Dickies portraitThe Dickies

Charting Dec 10, 1978Jul 20, 1980 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 28 wk

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Peak Power
1.06%
week of May 27, 1979
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
23
October 1978 – October 1979
Peak Five Years
25
July 1975 – July 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.86%
week of May 6, 1979
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

6 records · 25 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
Banana Splits#7813.5
Nights in White Satin#3953.5
Paranoid#4563.2
Silent Night#4742.8
Fan Mail#5731.3
Gigantor#7220.6

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At their peak

1978 in music

The Dickies's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1978 to October 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Boney M96
  2. 2Blondie92
  3. 3Chic74
  4. 4Electric Light Orchestra73
  5. 5Village People71
  6. 6ABBA68
  7. 7Racey66
  8. 8Earth, Wind & Fire66
  9. 9Bee Gees66
  10. 10The Boomtown Rats64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.