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George Duke portraitGeorge Duke

Charting Jan 7, 1978Apr 17, 1982 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 35 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Aug 8, 1981
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
April 1981 – April 1982
Peak Five Years
16
April 1977 – April 1982
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
35
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.95%
week of Aug 8, 1981
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 · 16 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
Sweet Babywith Stanley Clarke#19209.3
Shine On#4194.5
Reach For It#5462.3

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At their peak

1981 in music

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

  1. 1Daryl Hall and John Oates145
  2. 2Rick Springfield113
  3. 3Juice Newton112
  4. 4Air Supply109
  5. 5Foreigner105
  6. 6Journey104
  7. 7Sheena Easton96
  8. 8Kenny Rogers88
  9. 9Diana Ross83
  10. 10Olivia Newton-John83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.