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AC/DC portraitAC/DC

Charting Oct 13, 1979Sep 11, 1993 · 81 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 81 wk, UK Singles Chart 129 wk

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Peak Power
0.84%
week of Mar 2, 1991
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
19
April 1980 – March 1981
Peak Five Years
29
November 1978 – October 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
81
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.66%
week of Feb 9, 1991
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

7 records · 45 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
Moneytalks#231612.9
You Shook Me All Night Long#35169.9
Back In Black#37159.2
Highway To Hell#47104.7
Let's Get It Up#4494.4
Big Gun (From "Last Action Hero")#65112.8
Guns For Hire#8450.8

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At their peak

1980 in music

AC/DC's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1980 to March 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Air Supply122
  2. 2Blondie110
  3. 3Diana Ross109
  4. 4Christopher Cross90
  5. 5Queen88
  6. 6Billy Joel88
  7. 7Kenny Rogers87
  8. 8Eddie Rabbitt83
  9. 9John Lennon80
  10. 10Boz Scaggs77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.