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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Elvis Costello And The Attractions

Charting Aug 20, 1983Sep 22, 1984 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 23 wk, UK Singles Chart 86 wk

Part of the extended career Elvis Costello (extended) × 1 — this page stays artist-only.

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Peak Power
0.55%
week of Oct 29, 1983
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
September 1983 – September 1984
Peak Five Years
11
October 1979 – September 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.06%
week of Oct 22, 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 · 11 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
Everyday I Write The Book#36148.3
The Only Flame in Town#5692.9

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Lionel Richie150
  2. 2Billy Joel120
  3. 3Culture Club118
  4. 4Huey Lewis & The News102
  5. 5Duran Duran96
  6. 6Cyndi Lauper90
  7. 7Michael Jackson87
  8. 8Van Halen80
  9. 9Eurythmics79
  10. 10The Police78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.