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Gentle Persuasion

Charting Feb 26, 1983Mar 19, 1983 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.07%
week of Mar 19, 1983
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
March 1982 – March 1983
Peak Five Years
1
April 1978 – March 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.21%
week of Mar 12, 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

1 song · 1 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
Please Mr. Postman#8240.7

At their peak

1982 in music

Gentle Persuasion's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1982 to March 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Mellencamp120
  2. 2Toto96
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates96
  4. 4Men At Work94
  5. 5Survivor75
  6. 6Paul McCartney71
  7. 7Fleetwood Mac70
  8. 8Joan Jett & the Blackhearts67
  9. 9Juice Newton67
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.