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Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Fun Boy Three

Charting Nov 1, 1981 → Jun 26, 1983 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 63 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 63 wkGlobal Music Power · 63 wk
Peak Power
1.60%
week of Jun 5, 1983
Career Power
89
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
55
September 1981 – September 1982
Peak Five Years
89
July 1978 – June 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
63
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.87%
week of May 15, 1983
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

8 records · 89 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
Our Lips Are Sealed#71017.6
The Tunnel of Love#101015.6
The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)#201215.5
The Telephone Always Rings#17911.6
Summertime#1889.7
It Aint What You Do It's the Way That You Do Itwith Bananarama#4109.4
Really Saying Somethingwith Bananarama#5108.7
The More I See (the Less I Believe)#6820.5

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At their peak

1981 in music →

The Fun Boy Three's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1981 to September 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Soft Cell97
  2. 2Madness97
  3. 3Bucks Fizz76
  4. 4Haircut 10073
  5. 5Dollar70
  6. 6The Human League70
  7. 7Imagination68
  8. 8Tight Fit64
  9. 9Japan63
  10. 10Altered Images62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.