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Toyah

Charting Feb 8, 1981May 24, 1987 · 89 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 89 wk

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Peak Power
1.96%
week of Jun 21, 1981
Career Power
114
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
77
January 1981 – January 1982
Peak Five Years
111
September 1980 – September 1985
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
89
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.21%
week of Oct 18, 1981
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

13 records · 114 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
Four from Toyah (Ep)#41424.8
I Want to Be Free#81120.0
Thunder in the Mountains#4917.9
Four More from Toyah#14913.9
Brave New World#21810.5
Don't Fall in Love (I Said)#2266.4
Be Loud Be Proud (Be Heard)#3075.7
Rebel Run#2455.2
The Vow#5073.0
Echo Beach#5462.5
Ieya#4852.2
Soul Passing Through Soul#5731.3
World in Action#9310.2

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At their peak

1981 in music

Toyah's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1981 to January 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Adam & the Ants129
  2. 2Shakin' Stevens107
  3. 3The Human League89
  4. 4Bucks Fizz79
  5. 5Madness78
  6. 6Toyah77
  7. 7Ultravox76
  8. 8Kim Wilde76
  9. 9Bad Manners69
  10. 10Imagination59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.