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Bow Wow Wow portraitBow Wow Wow

Charting May 29, 1982May 14, 1983 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 11 wk, UK Singles Chart 54 wk

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Peak Power
0.18%
week of Jul 10, 1982
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
May 1982 – May 1983
Peak Five Years
3
May 1978 – May 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.43%
week of Jul 3, 1982
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 · 3 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
I Want Candy#6272.2
Do You Wanna Hold Me?#7740.8

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At their peak

1982 in music

Bow Wow Wow's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1982 to May 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Mellencamp118
  2. 2Men At Work112
  3. 3Toto109
  4. 4Daryl Hall and John Oates101
  5. 5Michael Jackson84
  6. 6Lionel Richie80
  7. 7Survivor74
  8. 8Laura Branigan73
  9. 9Fleetwood Mac70
  10. 10Juice Newton66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.