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Total Contrast

Charting Jul 28, 1985Dec 25, 1988 · 29 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 29 wk

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Peak Power
0.78%
week of Sep 15, 1985
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
June 1985 – June 1986
Peak Five Years
19
January 1984 – December 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.07%
week of Aug 25, 1985
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

7 records · 19 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
Takes a Little Time#171011.1
Hit and Run#4153.8
The River#4431.8
What You Gonna Do About It#6351.7
KISS#8020.4
Waiting in Vain#9020.3
Jody#9020.3

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At their peak

1985 in music

Total Contrast's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1985 to June 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna166
  2. 2Five Star76
  3. 3a-ha76
  4. 4Whitney Houston73
  5. 5Dire Straits73
  6. 6Billy Ocean67
  7. 7Jennifer Rush66
  8. 8Level 4261
  9. 9Feargal Sharkey60
  10. 10Simple Minds53

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.