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David Gates portraitDavid Gates

Charting Jul 14, 1973Nov 7, 1981 · 79 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 79 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
1.38%
week of Apr 29, 1978
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
35
November 1977 – November 1978
Peak Five Years
44
November 1973 – November 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
79
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.21%
week of Apr 15, 1978
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

7 records · 57 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
Goodbye Girl#152424.6
Took The Last Train#30149.9
Never Let Her Go#29107.7
Clouds#4784.7
Where Does The Lovin' Go#4683.9
Sail Around The World#5083.8
Take Me Now#6272.1

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At their peak

1977 in music

David Gates's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1977 to November 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bee Gees142
  2. 2Andy Gibb140
  3. 3Barry Manilow90
  4. 4Billy Joel86
  5. 5Player77
  6. 6Linda Ronstadt75
  7. 7Donna Summer73
  8. 8Olivia Newton-John73
  9. 9Foreigner69
  10. 10Commodores66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.