Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Blondie

Charting Feb 17, 1979 → May 15, 1999 · 117 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 117 wk (9 crowns), UK Singles Chart 174 wk (15 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Private Stock Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
9 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (May–Jun 1980) · First crown Apr 1980
UK Singles Chart
15 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 1979) · First crown Jan 1979
Global Music Power
6 crowns
19782013
Longest reign 6 weeks (Apr–May 1980) · First crown Apr 1980

Billboard Hot 100 · 117 wk UK Singles Chart · 174 wk Global Music Power · 211 wk

Peak Power: 3.42%; week of Apr 18, 1981
Career Power: 212; share-weeks
Crowns: 9; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 111; April 1980 – April 1981
Peak Five Years: 211; August 1977 – July 1982
Top-five weeks: 31; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 117; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.43%; week of Feb 21, 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

10 records · 212 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
Call MeApple Music	#1April 1980	25	February 1980 – August 1980	56.4	55.8
The Tide Is HighApple Music	#1January 1981	26	November 1980 – May 1981	44.5	46.0
RaptureApple Music	#1March 1981	20	January 1981 – June 1981	37.6	39.1
Heart Of GlassApple Music	#1April 1979	21	February 1979 – July 1979	36.8	36.8
One Way Or AnotherApple Music	#24August 1979	14	June 1979 – September 1979	13.5	13.8
DreamingApple Music	#27December 1979	14	September 1979 – December 1979	11.0	10.9
Island Of Lost SoulsApple Music	#37July 1982	10	May 1982 – July 1982	6.5	6.5
AtomicApple Music	#39July 1980	9	May 1980 – July 1980	3.8	5.7
MariaApple Music	#82April 1999	6	April 1999 – May 1999	0.9	0.9
The Hardest PartApple Music	#84February 1980	3	February 1980 – February 1980	0.5	0.6

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At their peak

1980 in music →

Blondie's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1980 to April 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.