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Donald Fagen portraitDonald Fagen

Charting Oct 9, 1982Apr 30, 1988 · 25 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 25 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
0.83%
week of Dec 11, 1982
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
March 1982 – March 1983
Peak Five Years
13
March 1978 – March 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.50%
week of Nov 27, 1982
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

3 records · 14 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.g.y. (what A Beautiful World)#261411.9
New Frontier#7061.4
Century's End (From "Bright Lights, Big City")#8350.9

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At their peak

1982 in music

Donald Fagen's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1982 to March 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Mellencamp120
  2. 2Toto95
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates93
  4. 4Men At Work90
  5. 5Survivor75
  6. 6Joan Jett & the Blackhearts74
  7. 7Paul McCartney71
  8. 8Fleetwood Mac70
  9. 9Olivia Newton-John69
  10. 10Rick Springfield68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.