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Ashford & Simpson portraitAshford & Simpson

Charting Jan 19, 1974Oct 18, 1986 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 63 wk, UK Singles Chart 32 wk

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Peak Power
1.43%
week of Mar 9, 1985
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
25
April 1984 – April 1985
Peak Five Years
29
October 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
63
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.45%
week of Feb 9, 1985
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

6 records · 38 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
Solid#122425.1
Found A Cure#36137.2
Street Corner#56103.3
Don't Cost You Nothing#7991.8
Count Your Blessings#8440.7
(I'd Know You) Anywhere#8830.5

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At their peak

1984 in music

Ashford & Simpson's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1984 to April 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna136
  2. 2Cyndi Lauper114
  3. 3Bruce Springsteen113
  4. 4The Pointer Sisters107
  5. 5Tina Turner104
  6. 6Chicago103
  7. 7The Cars99
  8. 8Lionel Richie94
  9. 9Duran Duran92
  10. 10Prince And The Revolution92

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.