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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Frank Zappa

Charting Oct 19, 1974Oct 2, 1982 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 24 wk, UK Singles Chart 5 wk

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Peak Power
0.61%
week of Sep 18, 1982
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
October 1981 – October 1982
Peak Five Years
12
October 1977 – October 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.22%
week of Sep 18, 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 · 12 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
Valley Girl#32128.4
Dancin' Fool#4583.4
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow#8640.6

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At their peak

1981 in music

Frank Zappa's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1981 to October 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Daryl Hall and John Oates116
  2. 2Air Supply105
  3. 3Rick Springfield100
  4. 4Olivia Newton-John95
  5. 5Journey93
  6. 6The J. Geils Band90
  7. 7Go-Go's88
  8. 8Foreigner87
  9. 9Juice Newton84
  10. 10Joan Jett & the Blackhearts80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.