Artists · UK Singles Chart

Val Doonican

Charting Oct 15, 1964 → Apr 22, 1973 · 132 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — UK Singles Chart 132 wk (2 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
19641973
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1965) · First crown Feb 1965

UK Singles Chart · 132 wk Global Music Power · 132 wk

Peak Power: 2.89%; week of Mar 4, 1965
Career Power: 250; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 71; May 1964 – May 1965
Peak Five Years: 223; May 1964 – April 1969
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 132; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.77%; week of Feb 11, 1965
Comebacks: 1; Jan 1972

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

14 records · 250 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
If the Whole World Stopped LovingApple Music	#3November 1967	19	October 1967 – February 1968	42.7	41.8
Walk TallApple Music	#3December 1964	21	October 1964 – March 1965	40.4	41.9
What Would I BeApple Music	#2December 1966	17	November 1966 – February 1967	36.9	36.6
The Special YearsApple Music	#7February 1965	13	January 1965 – April 1965	25.4	26.4
Elusive ButterflyApple Music	#5April 1966	12	March 1966 – June 1966	24.0	23.8
MorningApple Music	#12December 1971	13	November 1971 – February 1972	20.2	20.1
If I Knew Then What I Know NowApple Music	#14November 1968	13	October 1968 – January 1969	20.0	19.8
Memories Are Made of ThisApple Music	#11March 1967	12	February 1967 – May 1967	19.4	19.5
Heaven Is My Woman's LoveApple Music	#34April 1973	7	March 1973 – April 1973	6.3	6.2
I'm Gonna Get There SomehowApple Music	#25April 1965	5	April 1965 – May 1965	5.6	5.8
You're the Only OneApple Music	#37March 1968	4	February 1968 – March 1968	3.4	3.4
Two StreetsApple Music	#39June 1967	4	May 1967 – June 1967	3.2	3.2
NowApple Music	#43June 1968	2	June 1968 – June 1968	1.6	1.6
Ring of Bright Water	#48April 1969	1	April 1969	0.7	0.7

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At their peak

1964 in music →

Val Doonican's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1964 to May 1965. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.