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David Gilmour portraitDavid Gilmour

Charting Apr 7, 1984 → May 19, 1984 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 7 wk, UK Singles Chart 6 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 7 wkUK Singles Chart · 6 wkGlobal Music Power · 13 wk
Peak Power
0.16%
week of May 19, 1984
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
May 1983 – May 1984
Peak Five Years
2
June 1979 – May 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.43%
week of May 5, 1984
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

1 song · 2 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.

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At their peak

1983 in music →

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

  1. 1Culture Club145
  2. 2Michael Jackson136
  3. 3Lionel Richie126
  4. 4The Police123
  5. 5Billy Joel113
  6. 6Duran Duran97
  7. 7Eurythmics94
  8. 8Irene Cara88
  9. 9Rick Springfield74
  10. 10Elton John70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.