Artists · Global Music Power

Tom Robinson Band

Charting Feb 11, 1978 → Mar 17, 1979 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 14 wk

UK Singles Chart · 14 wk Global Music Power · 14 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.22%; week of Mar 18, 1978
Career Power: 5; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 4; June 1977 – June 1978
Peak Five Years: 5; March 1974 – March 1979
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 14; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.60%; week of Feb 25, 1978
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 Global Music Power

3 records · 5 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Rising Free Ep	#18	6	February 1978 – March 1978	2.7	2.7
Up Against the WallApple Music	#33	6	May 1978 – June 1978	1.6	1.6
Bully for You/Our PeopleApple Music	#68	2	March 1979 – March 1979	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

Tom Robinson Band's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from June 1977 to June 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.