Artists · Billboard Hot 100
Gentle Persuasion
Charting Feb 26, 1983 → Mar 19, 1983 · 4 weeks with chart power
Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 4 wk
- 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 →
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.
| Song | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Record Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Please Mr. Postman | #82 | 4 | 0.7 |
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:
- 1John Mellencamp120
- 2Toto96
- 3Daryl Hall and John Oates96
- 4Men At Work94
- 5Survivor75
- 6Paul McCartney71
- 7Fleetwood Mac70
- 8Joan Jett & the Blackhearts67
- 9Juice Newton67
- 10Chicago66
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.