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Wizzard

Charting Dec 3, 1972Jan 2, 2026 · 169 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itUK Singles Chart 169 wk (5 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    5 crowns

    19722026

    Longest reign 4 weeks (May–Jun 1973) · First crown May 1973

Peak Power
2.35%
week of Jun 17, 1973
Career Power
259
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
94
January 1973 – January 1974
Peak Five Years
145
March 1970 – February 1975
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
169
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.56%
week of May 13, 1973
Comebacks
1
January 2021
Comebacks (thresholds from config/scoring.json)
KindTrough beganReturnedTrough weeksLongest absencePrior peakReturn share
After absenceMar 30, 1975Jan 1, 2021237910872.35%1.01%

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

11 records · 259 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
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday#1089107.0
See My Baby Jive#11738.1
Angel Fingers#11025.7
Ball Park Incident#61222.5
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day#4922.4
Are You Ready to Rock#81016.6
Rock and Roll Winter#6715.6
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day {1984}#2344.5
This Is the Story of My Love (Baby)#3443.8
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day {1981}#4142.6
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Daywith Roy Wood#8630.2

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At their peak

1973 in music

Wizzard's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1973 to January 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gary Glitter121
  2. 2David Bowie116
  3. 3Slade97
  4. 4Wizzard94
  5. 5Perry Como93
  6. 6Donny Osmond91
  7. 7The Sweet83
  8. 8Elton John74
  9. 9Dawn67
  10. 10Gilbert O'Sullivan65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.