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Blues Brothers portraitBlues Brothers

Charting Dec 9, 1978Feb 28, 1981 · 45 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 45 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Peak Power
1.26%
week of Mar 3, 1979
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
24
April 1978 – April 1979
Peak Five Years
45
March 1976 – February 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
45
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.27%
week of Feb 17, 1979
Comebacks
1
Aug 1980

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

4 records · 45 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
Soul Man#141518.5
Gimme Some Lovin#181415.5
Who's Making Love#39116.4
Rubber Biscuit#3785.1

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At their peak

1978 in music

Blues Brothers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1978 to April 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Andy Gibb115
  2. 2Olivia Newton-John112
  3. 3Bee Gees96
  4. 4Donna Summer94
  5. 5Billy Joel91
  6. 6Barry Manilow90
  7. 7Foreigner84
  8. 8Chic78
  9. 9Village People74
  10. 10Gerry Rafferty72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.