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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Wax

Charting Apr 6, 1986Apr 10, 2005 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 13 wk, UK Singles Chart 21 wk

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Peak Power
1.18%
week of Sep 20, 1987
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
October 1986 – October 1987
Peak Five Years
19
October 1984 – October 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.42%
week of Aug 23, 1987
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

4 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
Bridge to Your Heart#121317.0
Right Between The Eyes#6051.8
Anchors Away#9520.3
The Trip/Quite Perfectwith Logistics, Cls#8510.1

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At their peak

1986 in music

Wax's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1986 to October 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna102
  2. 2Mel & Kim77
  3. 3Five Star71
  4. 4Erasure64
  5. 5Jackie Wilson62
  6. 6Curiosity Killed The Cat58
  7. 7Europe56
  8. 8a-ha52
  9. 9Bruce Willis52
  10. 10Alison Moyet52

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.