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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Big Country

Charting Oct 22, 1983Jun 9, 1984 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 23 wk, UK Singles Chart 111 wk

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Peak Power
1.18%
week of Dec 31, 1983
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
June 1983 – June 1984
Peak Five Years
21
June 1979 – June 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.07%
week of Dec 17, 1983
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

3 records · 21 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
In A Big Country#171518.4
Fields Of Fire#5262.6
Wonderland#8620.4

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At their peak

1983 in music

Big Country's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1983 to June 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Culture Club142
  2. 2Lionel Richie127
  3. 3Michael Jackson124
  4. 4The Police121
  5. 5Billy Joel119
  6. 6Duran Duran102
  7. 7Eurythmics96
  8. 8Irene Cara85
  9. 9Daryl Hall and John Oates84
  10. 10Rick Springfield72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.