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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Timbuk 3 portraitTimbuk 3

Charting Jan 18, 1987Mar 8, 1987 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 16 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.63%
week of Mar 1, 1987
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
March 1986 – March 1987
Peak Five Years
8
March 1982 – March 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.76%
week of Feb 15, 1987
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 · 8 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 Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades#2187.9

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At their peak

1986 in music

Timbuk 3's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1986 to March 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna97
  2. 2Five Star87
  3. 3a-ha68
  4. 4The Communards64
  5. 5The Bangles61
  6. 6The Housemartins58
  7. 7The Status Quo56
  8. 8Janet Jackson52
  9. 9The Real Thing51
  10. 10Falco46

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.