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Gerry Rafferty portraitGerry Rafferty

Charting Apr 22, 1978Sep 6, 1980 · 75 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 75 wk, UK Singles Chart 47 wk

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Peak Power
2.40%
week of Aug 5, 1978
Career Power
102
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
72
March 1978 – February 1979
Peak Five Years
102
September 1975 – September 1980
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
75
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.42%
week of Jun 24, 1978
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

6 records · 102 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
Baker Street#22041.3
Right Down The Line#121519.8
Get It Right Next Time#211314.0
Days Gone Down (Still Got The Light In Your Eyes)#171013.0
Home And Dry#281311.0
The Royal Mile (Sweet Darlin')#5482.7

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At their peak

1978 in music

Gerry Rafferty's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1978 to February 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Andy Gibb138
  2. 2Bee Gees117
  3. 3Barry Manilow110
  4. 4Olivia Newton-John101
  5. 5Billy Joel96
  6. 6Donna Summer87
  7. 7Foreigner81
  8. 8Eric Clapton75
  9. 9Gerry Rafferty72
  10. 10Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.