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Artists · UK Singles Chart

X-Ray Spex portraitX-Ray Spex

Charting Apr 23, 1978May 6, 1979 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 33 wk

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Peak Power
0.96%
week of Dec 10, 1978
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
April 1978 – April 1979
Peak Five Years
33
May 1974 – May 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.92%
week of Nov 19, 1978
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 · 33 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
Germ Free Adolescents#191111.3
Identity#241010.4
The Day the World Turned Day-Glo#2389.1
Highly Inflammable#4542.5

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At their peak

1978 in music

X-Ray Spex's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from April 1978 to April 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Boney M135
  2. 2Bee Gees91
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John89
  4. 4John Travolta85
  5. 5Blondie85
  6. 6Darts83
  7. 7The Boomtown Rats71
  8. 8Father Abraham and the Smurfs65
  9. 9Chic64
  10. 10Village People58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.