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Balance

Charting Jul 11, 1981Jan 30, 1982 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 28 wk

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Peak Power
0.98%
week of Oct 10, 1981
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
19
February 1981 – January 1982
Peak Five Years
19
February 1977 – January 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.72%
week of Sep 26, 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

2 records · 19 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
Breaking Away#221715.5
Falling In Love#58113.7

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At their peak

1981 in music

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

  1. 1Juice Newton112
  2. 2Sheena Easton102
  3. 3REO Speedwagon94
  4. 4Rick Springfield94
  5. 5Air Supply91
  6. 6Foreigner88
  7. 7Neil Diamond87
  8. 8Eddie Rabbitt85
  9. 9Kenny Rogers76
  10. 10Journey74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.