Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Alabama

Charting Jun 6, 1981 → Sep 3, 2011 · 148 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 148 wk, UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 148 wk UK Singles Chart · 1 wk Global Music Power · 149 wk

Peak Power: 1.40%; week of Mar 13, 1982
Career Power: 87; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 51; August 1981 – July 1982
Peak Five Years: 69; August 1979 – July 1984
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 148; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.20%; week of Mar 6, 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

11 records · 87 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Love In The First DegreeApple Music	#15March 1982	21	November 1981 – April 1982	22.2	21.9
Feels So RightApple Music	#20September 1981	22	June 1981 – October 1981	18.5	18.3
Take Me DownApple Music	#18July 1982	13	May 1982 – August 1982	16.3	16.2
God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On Youfeat. *NSYNCApple Music	#29August 1999	20	May 1999 – October 1999	12.4	17.4
The Closer You GetApple Music	#38June 1983	11	May 1983 – July 1983	5.8	5.7
Old Alabamafeatured credit · with Brad PaisleyApple Music	#38April 2011	20	April 2011 – September 2011	3.2	9.8
Close Enough To PerfectApple Music	#65September 1982	12	September 1982 – November 1982	2.6	2.5
Keepin' UpApple Music	#69March 1999	8	February 1999 – March 1999	2.1	2.0
When We Make LoveApple Music	#72June 1984	10	May 1984 – July 1984	1.9	1.9
Lady Down On LoveApple Music	#76November 1983	6	October 1983 – December 1983	1.2	1.2
How Do You Fall In LoveApple Music	#82December 1998	5	December 1998 – January 1999	0.8	0.8

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At their peak

1981 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.