Skip to content

Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Dexys Midnight Runners portraitDexys Midnight Runners

Charting Jan 22, 1983Jun 25, 1983 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 23 wk, UK Singles Chart 94 wk (2 crowns)

Compare with other artists
Image credits

Honours

  • UK Singles Chart

    Artist of the Week
    2 crownsLongest reign 2 weeks: Apr 27, 1980 May 4, 1980First crown: Apr 27, 1980
Peak Power
2.27%
week of May 14, 1983
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
40
July 1982 – June 1983
Peak Five Years
40
July 1978 – June 1983
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.64%
week of Apr 23, 1983
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

2 records · 40 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
Come On Eileen#12340.0
The Celtic Soul Brothers#8640.4

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

1982 in music

Dexys Midnight Runners's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1982 to June 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Men At Work130
  2. 2Michael Jackson110
  3. 3John Cougar106
  4. 4Daryl Hall John Oates105
  5. 5Toto101
  6. 6Lionel Richie96
  7. 7Laura Branigan86
  8. 8Survivor70
  9. 9Culture Club70
  10. 10Fleetwood Mac67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.