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Charting Jun 17, 1979May 10, 1981 · 39 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 39 wk

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Peak Power
0.62%
week of Sep 23, 1979
Career Power
31
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
25
June 1979 – June 1980
Peak Five Years
31
May 1976 – May 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
39
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.48%
week of Jul 15, 1979
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 · 31 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
Stranglehold#2687.2
Tomorrow's Girls#2865.2
She's Not There/Kicks Ep#3674.7
Teenage#3254.4
Warhead#3043.7
Party in Paris#3743.2
Keep on Running (Til You Burn)#4153.0

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At their peak

1979 in music

UK Subs's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1979 to June 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Blondie88
  2. 2The Police87
  3. 3Michael Jackson74
  4. 4Dr. Hook71
  5. 5Madness70
  6. 6ABBA67
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra64
  8. 8The Boomtown Rats61
  9. 9Cliff Richard58
  10. 10The Gibson Brothers56

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.