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They Might Be Giants portraitThey Might Be Giants

Charting Feb 18, 1990Aug 22, 2010 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 23 wk

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Peak Power
1.34%
week of Apr 22, 1990
Career Power
26
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
June 1989 – June 1990
Peak Five Years
20
June 1985 – June 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.97%
week of Apr 1, 1990
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

3 records · 26 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
Birdhouse in Your Soul#61519.8
Boss of Me#2155.2
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)#6131.1

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At their peak

1989 in music

They Might Be Giants's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1989 to June 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers95
  2. 2New Kids On The Block86
  3. 3Kylie Minogue83
  4. 4Madonna77
  5. 5Black Box74
  6. 6Jason Donovan69
  7. 7Soul II Soul69
  8. 8Sonia60
  9. 9Erasure57
  10. 10Lisa Stansfield55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.