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Devo portraitDevo

Charting Apr 16, 1978Jun 26, 1983 · 22 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 43 wk, UK Singles Chart 22 wk

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Peak Power
0.37%
week of May 28, 1978
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
September 1977 – September 1978
Peak Five Years
10
January 1976 – December 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.90%
week of May 7, 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 UK Singles Chart

6 records · 10 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
(I Can't Get Me No) Satisfaction#4184.6
Whip It#5162.7
Come Back Jonee#6041.4
Joko Homo#6230.7
Theme from Dr Detroit#9830.4
Be Stiff#7110.3

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At their peak

1977 in music

Devo's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1977 to September 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Darts110
  2. 2Bee Gees106
  3. 3Boney M91
  4. 4Donna Summer83
  5. 5Showaddywaddy72
  6. 6Wings71
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra66
  8. 8ABBA65
  9. 9The Boomtown Rats64
  10. 10David Soul57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.