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Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Velvelettes

Charting Jul 25, 1971Sep 5, 1971 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 14 wk, UK Singles Chart 7 wk

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Peak Power
0.54%
week of Sep 5, 1971
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
September 1970 – September 1971
Peak Five Years
7
September 1966 – September 1971
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.13%
week of Aug 22, 1971
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

1 song · 7 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
These Things Will Keep Me Loving You#3476.6

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At their peak

1970 in music

The Velvelettes's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1970 to September 1971. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1T. Rex119
  2. 2Elvis Presley114
  3. 3Neil Diamond87
  4. 4Dawn82
  5. 5Chairmen of the Board70
  6. 6Diana Ross69
  7. 7Frank Sinatra69
  8. 8Andy Williams68
  9. 9Mungo Jerry59
  10. 10McGuinness Flint58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.