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Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Piranhas

Charting Jul 27, 1980Dec 5, 1982 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 21 wk

Compare with other artists
Peak Power
1.40%
week of Sep 14, 1980
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
October 1979 – October 1980
Peak Five Years
29
December 1977 – December 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.99%
week of Aug 24, 1980
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

2 records · 29 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
Tom Hark#61220.9
Zambezi ft Boring Bob Groverfeat. Boring Bob Grover#1797.9

At their peak

1979 in music

The Piranhas's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1979 to October 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madness75
  2. 2The Police69
  3. 3Dr. Hook68
  4. 4ABBA66
  5. 5Michael Jackson66
  6. 6The Jam65
  7. 7Queen65
  8. 8Blondie64
  9. 9The Beat62
  10. 10Specials58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.