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Adam Ant portraitAdam Ant

Charting Nov 13, 1982Aug 5, 1995 · 73 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 73 wk, UK Singles Chart 64 wk (2 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    2 crowns

    19821995

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1982) · First crown Jun 1982

Peak Power
1.61%
week of Mar 5, 1983
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
May 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
36
May 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
73
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.43%
week of Feb 26, 1983
Comebacks
1
May 1990, after 7 quiet years

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

5 records · 63 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
Goody Two Shoes#122128.7
Room At The Top#171617.1
Wonderful#391910.2
Strip#42135.4
Desperate But Not Serious#6681.9

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At their peak

1982 in music

Adam Ant's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Toto106
  2. 2Men At Work106
  3. 3Lionel Richie74
  4. 4Michael Jackson74
  5. 5Survivor74
  6. 6Fleetwood Mac70
  7. 7Laura Branigan68
  8. 8Juice Newton67
  9. 9Paul McCartney67
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.