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Pink Floyd portraitPink Floyd

Charting May 19, 1973Jul 30, 1994 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 55 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 57 wk (2 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    3 crowns

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar–Apr 1980) · First crown Mar 1980

  • UK Singles Chart

    2 crowns

    19672022

    First crown Dec 1979

Peak Power
2.60%
week of May 17, 1980
Career Power
76
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
54
July 1979 – July 1980
Peak Five Years
54
July 1975 – July 1980
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.55%
week of Apr 12, 1980
Comebacks
1
Mar 1980, after 6 quiet years

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

5 records · 76 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
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)#12552.2
Money#131519.2
Learning To Fly#7081.8
Take It Back#7371.4
Run Like Hell#5361.4

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At their peak

1979 in music

Pink Floyd's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1979 to July 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson122
  2. 2Donna Summer122
  3. 3Kenny Rogers92
  4. 4Dr. Hook88
  5. 5Eagles87
  6. 6Commodores85
  7. 7Blondie79
  8. 8Rupert Holmes78
  9. 9The Knack72
  10. 10Kool & The Gang65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.