Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Spinners

Also credited as Detroit Spinners and Motown Spinners

Charting Nov 8, 1970 → Jul 9, 1995 · 96 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 295 wk, UK Singles Chart 96 wk (1 crown)

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Image credits

Photo: Motown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
1 crown
First crown Apr 1980
Global Music Power
7 crowns
19611995
Longest reign 4 weeks (Mar–Apr 1980) · First crown Mar 1980

Billboard Hot 100 · 295 wk UK Singles Chart · 96 wk Global Music Power · 328 wk

Peak Power: 2.00%; week of May 4, 1980
Career Power: 138; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 52; September 1979 – August 1980
Peak Five Years: 79; August 1975 – August 1980
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 96; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Apr 13, 1980
Comebacks: 3; May 1973 · Oct 1976 · Mar 1980

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

14 records · 138 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
Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, GirlApple Music	#1April 1980	14	February 1980 – May 1980	29.6	29.5
Ghetto ChildApple Music	#7October 1973	10	September 1973 – November 1973	20.3	20.0
Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long TimeApple Music	#4July 1980	10	June 1980 – August 1980	18.2	18.1
Could It Be I'm Falling In LoveApple Music	#11May 1973	11	April 1973 – June 1973	17.6	17.5
The Rubberband ManApple Music	#16October 1976	11	September 1976 – November 1976	16.6	16.5
It's A ShameApple Music	#20December 1970	11	November 1970 – January 1971	15.8	15.7
Wake Up SusanApple Music	#29February 1977	6	January 1977 – February 1977	6.7	6.7
Body Language	#40May 1980	7	May 1980 – June 1980	4.1	4.5
Could It Be I'm Falling in Love (Ep)	#32May 1977	3	May 1977 – May 1977	3.3	3.3
Then Came Youwith Dionne WarwickApple Music	#29November 1974	6	October 1974 – November 1974	3.1	6.2
I'll Be Aroundfeatured credit · with Rappin' 4-TayApple Music	#30June 1995	4	June 1995 – July 1995	1.1	3.5
Right or Wrong/I'll Be Around	#84May 1984	3	April 1984 – May 1984	0.5	0.5
Working My Way Back to You	#81May 1988	2	May 1988 – June 1988	0.4	0.4
Ghetto Child {1990}	#91September 1990	1	September 1990	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1979 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.