Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Deniece Williams

Charting Dec 11, 1976 → Nov 12, 1988 · 107 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 107 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 61 wk (2 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Distributed by Columbia Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (May–Jun 1984) · First crown May 1984
UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1977) · First crown May 1977
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19761988
Longest reign 5 weeks (May–Jun 1984) · First crown May 1984

Billboard Hot 100 · 107 wk UK Singles Chart · 61 wk Global Music Power · 130 wk

Peak Power: 2.31%; week of Jul 7, 1984
Career Power: 104; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 42; September 1983 – September 1984
Peak Five Years: 67; September 1979 – August 1984
Top-five weeks: 7; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 107; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of May 26, 1984
Comebacks: 2; Jun 1982 · May 1984

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 · 104 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
Let's Hear It For The BoyApple Music	#1May 1984	19	April 1984 – August 1984	41.1	40.5
It's Gonna Take A MiracleApple Music	#10June 1982	17	April 1982 – July 1982	21.7	21.5
Too Much, Too Little, Too Latewith Johnny MathisApple Music	#1June 1978	18	April 1978 – July 1978	17.5	34.5
FreeApple Music	#25April 1977	20	December 1976 – April 1977	14.7	14.7
SillyApple Music	#53September 1981	10	August 1981 – October 1981	3.7	3.6
I Can't WaitApple Music	#66October 1988	8	September 1988 – November 1988	2.1	2.1
You're All I Need To Get Bywith Johnny MathisApple Music	#47September 1978	8	July 1978 – September 1978	1.8	3.5
I've Got The Next DanceApple Music	#73September 1979	5	August 1979 – September 1979	1.1	1.0
Next LoveApple Music	#81August 1984	4	August 1984 – September 1984	0.7	0.8

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At their peak

1983 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.