Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Shadows

Charting Jul 21, 1960 → Dec 17, 1989 · 334 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 334 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Harry Pot for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
19601989
Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1961) · First crown Sep 1960

UK Singles Chart · 334 wk Global Music Power · 334 wk

Peak Power: 3.28%; week of Jun 15, 1961
Career Power: 686; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 156; August 1960 – July 1961
Peak Five Years: 548; July 1960 – July 1965
Top-five weeks: 51; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 334; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.40%; week of May 25, 1961
Comebacks: 1; Feb 1979, after 13 quiet years

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

33 records · 686 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
Wonderful LandApple Music	#1March 1962	19	March 1962 – July 1962	54.1	53.2
ApacheApple Music	#1August 1960	21	July 1960 – December 1960	51.4	52.1
Frightened City	#3June 1961	20	May 1961 – September 1961	44.2	44.1
FbiApple Music	#6February 1961	19	February 1961 – June 1961	40.0	42.1
AtlantisApple Music	#2June 1963	17	June 1963 – September 1963	39.2	39.1
Foot TapperApple Music	#1March 1963	16	March 1963 – June 1963	35.1	35.5
Dance On!	#1January 1963	15	December 1962 – March 1963	34.3	34.7
Guitar TangoApple Music	#4August 1962	15	August 1962 – November 1962	33.7	33.2
Man of Mystery/The StrangerApple Music	#5December 1960	15	November 1960 – February 1961	33.6	33.9
Kon-TikiApple Music	#1October 1961	12	September 1961 – November 1961	29.0	28.9
Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt	#5June 1964	14	May 1964 – August 1964	27.2	26.9
Don't Cry for Me Argentina	#5February 1979	14	December 1978 – March 1979	22.6	22.5
ShindigApple Music	#6October 1963	12	September 1963 – December 1963	22.5	22.7
Theme from 'the Deer Hunter' (Cavatina)Apple Music	#9May 1979	14	April 1979 – July 1979	22.2	22.2
GeronimoApple Music	#11December 1963	12	December 1963 – February 1964	20.8	20.3
Theme for Young LoversApple Music	#12April 1964	10	March 1964 – May 1964	18.3	18.2
The SavageApple Music	#10November 1961	8	November 1961 – January 1962	17.0	16.8
Don't Make My Baby BlueApple Music	#10August 1965	10	August 1965 – October 1965	16.6	16.3
Riders in the SkyApple Music	#12February 1980	12	January 1980 – April 1980	15.5	15.5
Genie with the Light Brown LampApple Music	#17January 1965	10	December 1964 – February 1965	15.5	15.3
Mary AnneApple Music	#17March 1965	10	February 1965 – April 1965	14.0	13.9
Let Me Be the OneApple Music	#12March 1975	9	March 1975 – April 1975	13.5	13.4
War Lord	#18December 1965	9	November 1965 – January 1966	12.8	12.5
Rhythm and GreensApple Music	#22September 1964	7	September 1964 – October 1964	10.7	10.5
Maroc 7Apple Music	#24May 1967	8	April 1967 – June 1967	9.9	9.8
StingrayApple Music	#19June 1965	7	June 1965 – July 1965	9.3	9.2
A Place in the SunApple Music	#24July 1966	6	July 1966 – August 1966	7.8	7.8
I Met a GirlApple Music	#22March 1966	5	March 1966 – April 1966	6.5	6.4
The Dreams I DreamApple Music	#42November 1966	6	November 1966 – December 1966	4.4	4.4
The Third Man	#44May 1981	4	April 1981 – May 1981	2.4	2.4
Equinoxe (Part V)	#50August 1980	3	August 1980 – August 1980	1.8	1.7
Theme from 'Eastenders'/'Howard's Way	#86December 1986	2	December 1986 – December 1986	0.3	0.3
Shadowmix	#81December 1989	1	December 1989	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1960 in music →

The Shadows's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1960 to July 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.