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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Al Jarreau portraitAl Jarreau

Charting Aug 1, 1981 → Aug 22, 1987 · 83 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 83 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.41%
week of Nov 21, 1981
Career Power
61
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
May 1981 – May 1982
Peak Five Years
49
December 1979 – December 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
83
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.20%
week of Nov 7, 1981
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

8 records · 61 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
We're In This Love Together#152424.7
Mornin#211513.4
Moonlighting (Theme)#231311.1
Breakin' Away#43104.9
After All#6992.0
Teach Me Tonight#7071.7
Trouble in Paradise#6371.6
Boogie Down#7761.2

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At their peak

1981 in music →

Al Jarreau's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1981 to May 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Daryl Hall and John Oates141
  2. 2Rick Springfield122
  3. 3Air Supply108
  4. 4Foreigner105
  5. 5Journey103
  6. 6Juice Newton100
  7. 7Olivia Newton-John87
  8. 8Sheena Easton85
  9. 9Diana Ross85
  10. 10Kenny Rogers85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.