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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force

Charting Jul 17, 1982Sep 25, 1982 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 11 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.33%
week of Sep 11, 1982
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
October 1981 – September 1982
Peak Five Years
4
October 1977 – September 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.70%
week of Sep 11, 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

1 song · 4 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
Planet Rock#48114.5

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At their peak

1981 in music

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1981 to September 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Daryl Hall and John Oates119
  2. 2Air Supply106
  3. 3Rick Springfield102
  4. 4Journey96
  5. 5Olivia Newton-John93
  6. 6The J. Geils Band90
  7. 7Foreigner90
  8. 8Go-Go's88
  9. 9Juice Newton85
  10. 10The Rolling Stones80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.