Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Electric Light Orchestra

Also credited as ELO

Charting Apr 28, 1973 → May 10, 1986 · 303 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 303 wk, UK Singles Chart 245 wk (1 crown)

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Image credits

Photo: Helge Øverås, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
1 crown
First crown Sep 1979
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19721986
Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep 1979) · First crown Sep 1979

Billboard Hot 100 · 303 wk UK Singles Chart · 245 wk Global Music Power · 380 wk

Peak Power: 2.45%; week of Oct 6, 1979
Career Power: 370; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 76; June 1977 – June 1978
Peak Five Years: 274; November 1975 – November 1980
Top-five weeks: 6; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 303; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.36%; week of Aug 11, 1979
Comebacks: 1; Aug 1983

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

25 records · 370 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
Telephone LineApple Music	#7September 1977	23	June 1977 – November 1977	35.1	34.9
Don't Bring Me DownApple Music	#4September 1979	15	August 1979 – November 1979	28.8	29.6
Hold On TightApple Music	#10October 1981	19	July 1981 – November 1981	27.0	27.0
Shine A Little LoveApple Music	#8July 1979	15	May 1979 – August 1979	25.8	25.7
Evil WomanApple Music	#10February 1976	17	November 1975 – March 1976	25.5	25.4
Livin' ThingApple Music	#13January 1977	18	October 1976 – February 1977	25.1	25.0
Can't Get It Out Of My HeadApple Music	#9March 1975	16	December 1974 – April 1975	21.7	21.7
Sweet Talkin' WomanApple Music	#17April 1978	16	February 1978 – June 1978	21.0	20.7
Turn To StoneApple Music	#13February 1978	15	November 1977 – February 1978	19.8	19.6
All Over The WorldApple Music	#13October 1980	16	August 1980 – November 1980	19.5	19.9
Strange MagicApple Music	#14May 1976	14	March 1976 – June 1976	19.4	19.3
Rock 'n' Roll Is KingApple Music	#19August 1983	13	June 1983 – September 1983	15.9	15.7
I'm AliveApple Music	#16July 1980	15	May 1980 – August 1980	15.0	15.5
Calling AmericaApple Music	#18April 1986	15	February 1986 – May 1986	13.4	13.2
Do YaApple Music	#24April 1977	12	February 1977 – April 1977	10.0	10.3
Xanaduwith Olivia Newton-JohnApple Music	#8October 1980	17	August 1980 – November 1980	9.4	24.2
Roll Over BeethovenApple Music	#42July 1973	16	April 1973 – August 1973	6.8	6.8
Mr. Blue SkyApple Music	#35August 1978	12	June 1978 – September 1978	6.5	6.4
ShowdownApple Music	#53February 1974	18	December 1973 – September 1976	6.1	6.1
Last Train To LondonApple Music	#39February 1980	11	December 1979 – February 1980	5.7	5.7
TwilightApple Music	#38November 1981	11	October 1981 – January 1982	5.0	5.3
ConfusionApple Music	#37November 1979	8	October 1979 – December 1979	4.9	5.1
It's OverApple Music	#75November 1978	4	October 1978 – November 1978	0.9	0.9
DaybreakerApple Music	#87May 1974	5	May 1974 – June 1974	0.8	0.8
Four Little DiamondsApple Music	#86October 1983	2	October 1983 – October 1983	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1977 in music →

Electric Light Orchestra's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1977 to June 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.