Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Culture Club

Charting Dec 4, 1982 → Jul 5, 1986 · 125 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 125 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 110 wk (9 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Mark Lebon; Distributed by Epic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
5 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 1984) · First crown Jan 1984
UK Singles Chart
9 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Sep–Oct 1983) · First crown Oct 1982
Global Music Power
4 crowns
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Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 1984) · First crown Dec 1983

Billboard Hot 100 · 125 wk UK Singles Chart · 110 wk Global Music Power · 163 wk

Peak Power: 3.29%; week of Mar 24, 1984
Career Power: 257; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 146; March 1983 – March 1984
Peak Five Years: 257; July 1981 – July 1986
Top-five weeks: 35; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 125; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.81%; week of Jan 7, 1984
Comebacks: 1; Jun 1986

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 · 257 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
Do You Really Want To Hurt MeApple Music	#2March 1983	25	December 1982 – May 1983	45.2	45.3
Karma ChameleonApple Music	#1February 1984	22	December 1983 – April 1984	40.6	43.4
Time (Clock Of The Heart)Apple Music	#2June 1983	18	April 1983 – August 1983	36.1	36.7
Miss Me BlindApple Music	#5April 1984	16	March 1984 – June 1984	26.7	28.2
Church Of The Poison MindApple Music	#10December 1983	17	October 1983 – February 1984	25.2	26.3
I'll Tumble 4 YaApple Music	#9August 1983	16	July 1983 – October 1983	23.8	24.7
Move AwayApple Music	#12May 1986	14	April 1986 – July 1986	18.9	18.6
It's A MiracleApple Music	#13June 1984	13	May 1984 – August 1984	17.2	17.7
The War SongApple Music	#17November 1984	13	October 1984 – December 1984	13.4	13.3
Mistake No. 3Apple Music	#33February 1985	13	December 1984 – March 1985	9.4	9.2

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At their peak

1983 in music →

Culture Club's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1983 to March 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.