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Bonnie Pointer portraitBonnie Pointer

Charting Nov 18, 1978Mar 15, 1980 · 50 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 50 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
1.70%
week of Oct 27, 1979
Career Power
41
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
37
March 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years
41
March 1975 – March 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.54%
week of Oct 20, 1979
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 · 41 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
Heaven Must Have Sent You#112330.9
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)#40136.3
Free Me From My Freedom/Tie Me To A Tree (Handcuff Me)#58143.5

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At their peak

1979 in music

Bonnie Pointer's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Summer163
  2. 2Kenny Rogers96
  3. 3Michael Jackson84
  4. 4Commodores84
  5. 5Supertramp75
  6. 6Little River Band74
  7. 7Styx74
  8. 8The Knack71
  9. 9Chic70
  10. 10Dr. Hook67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.