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Dead Or Alive portraitDead Or Alive

Charting Jun 1, 1985 → Aug 19, 1989 · 58 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 58 wk, UK Singles Chart 102 wk (3 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    3 crowns

    19832006

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Feb–Mar 1985) · First crown Feb 1985

Billboard Hot 100 · 58 wkUK Singles Chart · 102 wkGlobal Music Power · 132 wk
Peak Power
1.35%
week of Aug 31, 1985
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
23
November 1984 – November 1985
Peak Five Years
46
September 1984 – August 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
58
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.53%
week of Aug 17, 1985
Comebacks
1
Mar 1987

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

5 records · 46 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
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)#111821.6
Brand New Lover#152219.7
Come Home With Me Baby#6981.9
Lover Come Back To Me#7571.4
Something In My House#8561.0

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Dead Or Alive's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1984 to November 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna157
  2. 2Bryan Adams122
  3. 3Phil Collins118
  4. 4Prince And The Revolution103
  5. 5Bruce Springsteen102
  6. 6Billy Ocean96
  7. 7Daryl Hall and John Oates94
  8. 8Wham!93
  9. 9Tina Turner91
  10. 10Kool & The Gang90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.