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Charting Apr 24, 1983Aug 1, 1993 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 37 wk

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Peak Power
1.44%
week of May 12, 1991
Career Power
42
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
June 1990 – June 1991
Peak Five Years
34
July 1988 – August 1993
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.31%
week of Apr 7, 1991
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

8 records · 42 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
The Whole of the Moon {1991}#3920.5
The Whole of the Moon#2687.4
Fisherman's Blues#3264.7
The Return of Pan#2433.6
Glastonbury Song#2932.5
And a Bang on the Ear#5142.3
A Girl Called Johnny#8030.5
Fisherman's Blues {1991}#7510.3

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At their peak

1990 in music

The Waterboys's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1990 to June 1991. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Roxette86
  2. 2MC Hammer78
  3. 3Madonna78
  4. 4New Kids On The Block76
  5. 5Snap!68
  6. 6The Farm52
  7. 7The Righteous Brothers52
  8. 8The KLF49
  9. 9Vanilla Ice49
  10. 10EMF48

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.