Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Chic

Charting Oct 29, 1977 → Jul 10, 1982 · 108 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 108 wk (7 crowns), UK Singles Chart 105 wk

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
7 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Dec 1978) · First crown Dec 1978
Global Music Power
4 crowns
19772015
Longest reign 2 weeks (Dec 1978) · First crown Dec 1978

Billboard Hot 100 · 108 wk UK Singles Chart · 105 wk Global Music Power · 145 wk

Peak Power: 2.87%; week of Mar 17, 1979
Career Power: 178; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 127; November 1978 – November 1979
Peak Five Years: 178; July 1977 – July 1982
Top-five weeks: 24; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 108; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.56%; week of Aug 18, 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

9 records · 178 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
Le FreakApple Music	#1December 1978	25	October 1978 – April 1979	58.2	58.9
Good TimesApple Music	#1August 1979	19	June 1979 – October 1979	40.8	40.3
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)Apple Music	#6February 1978	28	October 1977 – May 1978	40.3	39.5
I Want Your LoveApple Music	#7May 1979	19	February 1979 – June 1979	25.9	27.0
Everybody DanceApple Music	#38June 1978	10	April 1978 – June 1978	5.2	5.3
My Forbidden LoverApple Music	#43November 1979	9	October 1979 – December 1979	3.8	3.9
Rebels Are WeApple Music	#61September 1980	6	August 1980 – October 1980	1.8	1.7
Soup For OneApple Music	#80June 1982	6	June 1982 – July 1982	1.2	1.2
Real People/Chip Off The Old BlockApple Music	#79November 1980	3	November 1980 – November 1980	0.7	0.6

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At their peak

1978 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.