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A Flock Of Seagulls portraitA Flock Of Seagulls

Charting Jul 10, 1982Oct 6, 1984 · 59 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 59 wk, UK Singles Chart 52 wk

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Peak Power
1.62%
week of Nov 6, 1982
Career Power
54
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
49
August 1982 – July 1983
Peak Five Years
54
October 1979 – October 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
59
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.70%
week of Oct 23, 1982
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 Billboard Hot 100

4 records · 54 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 Ran (So Far Away)#92225.5
Space Age Love Song#301813.3
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)#261412.6
The More You Live, The More You Love#5693.0

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At their peak

1982 in music

A Flock Of Seagulls's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1982 to July 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Men At Work138
  2. 2Michael Jackson129
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates110
  4. 4Lionel Richie98
  5. 5John Mellencamp89
  6. 6Laura Branigan87
  7. 7Toto85
  8. 8Culture Club85
  9. 9Duran Duran73
  10. 10Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.