Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Sex Pistols

Charting Dec 5, 1976 → Jun 10, 2022 · 89 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 89 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Photograph: Koen Suyk. In: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 928-9665, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
19762022
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jul 1977) · First crown Jul 1977

UK Singles Chart · 89 wk Global Music Power · 89 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.15%; week of Aug 7, 1977
Career Power: 144; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 52; November 1976 – November 1977
Peak Five Years: 130; August 1975 – July 1980
Top-five weeks: 11; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 89; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.81%; week of Jul 10, 1977
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

15 records · 144 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Something Else/Friggin' in the RigginApple Music	#3March 1979	12	February 1979 – May 1979	24.4	24.8
God Save the QueenApple Music	#2June 1977	15	May 1977 – June 2022	24.2	25.3
C'Mon EverybodyApple Music	#3July 1979	9	June 1979 – August 1979	18.3	18.3
Pretty VacantApple Music	#6July 1977	9	July 1977 – October 2007	17.7	17.8
No-One Is Innocent/My WayApple Music	#7July 1978	10	July 1978 – September 1978	15.7	15.7
Holiday in the Sun	#8October 1977	6	October 1977 – November 1977	13.0	13.0
(I'm Not Your) Stepping StoneApple Music	#21July 1980	8	June 1980 – July 1980	9.5	9.5
Silly Thing/Who Killed Bambiwith Tenpole TudorApple Music	#6April 1979	8	April 1979 – May 1979	5.3	14.5
Anarchy in the UKApple Music	#37September 1992	6	December 1976 – October 2007	5.1	5.1
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle/Rock Around the Clockwith Tenpole TudorApple Music	#21October 1979	6	October 1979 – November 1979	4.2	8.4
Pretty Vacant LiveApple Music	#18July 1996	3	July 1996 – August 1996	3.3	3.3
Anarchy in the UK {1992}	#33October 1992	2	October 1992 – October 1992	1.6	1.6
Pretty Vacant {1992}	#56December 1992	2	November 1992 – December 1992	0.8	0.8
Anarchy in the UK {1983}	#89June 1983	3	June 1983 – June 1983	0.5	0.5
Holidays in the Sun	#74October 2007	1	October 2007	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1976 in music →

The Sex Pistols's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1976 to November 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.