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Gary Wright portraitGary Wright

Charting Jan 3, 1976Oct 24, 1981 · 69 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 69 wk

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Peak Power
2.59%
week of Aug 14, 1976
Career Power
104
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
82
October 1975 – October 1976
Peak Five Years
86
February 1973 – February 1978
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
69
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.41%
week of Jul 31, 1976
Comebacks
1
Sep 1981, after 5 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

6 records · 104 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
Love Is Alive#22744.2
Dream Weaver#22036.9
Really Wanna Know You#161718.1
Phantom Writer#4373.5
Touch And Gone#7330.7
Made To Love You#7950.6

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At their peak

1975 in music

Gary Wright's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1975 to October 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Captain & Tennille97
  2. 2Bee Gees88
  3. 3Wings86
  4. 4Diana Ross85
  5. 5Gary Wright82
  6. 6Silver Convention74
  7. 7KC And The Sunshine Band72
  8. 8Bay City Rollers71
  9. 9Barry Manilow70
  10. 10Ohio Players70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.