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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Walter Murphy

Charting Jul 4, 1976Aug 29, 1976 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 43 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Honours

  • Billboard Hot 100

    Artist of the Week
    1 crownFirst crown: Oct 9, 1976
Peak Power
0.70%
week of Aug 29, 1976
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
August 1975 – August 1976
Peak Five Years
10
September 1971 – August 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.39%
week of Aug 8, 1976
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

1 song · 10 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
A Fifth of Beethoven#2899.9

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At their peak

1975 in music

Walter Murphy's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1975 to August 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1ABBA101
  2. 2Hot Chocolate73
  3. 3Rod Stewart68
  4. 4The Stylistics68
  5. 5The Four Seasons63
  6. 6Queen61
  7. 7The Drifters59
  8. 8David Bowie52
  9. 9Demis Roussos52
  10. 10Brotherhood Of Man51

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.