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Golden Earring portraitGolden Earring

Charting May 11, 1974Apr 14, 1984 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 55 wk, UK Singles Chart 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.67%
week of Apr 23, 1983
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
34
June 1982 – May 1983
Peak Five Years
35
April 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.62%
week of Apr 2, 1983
Comebacks
1
Mar 1983, after 8 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

5 records · 56 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
Twilight Zone#102733.3
Radar Love#132021.1
When The Lady Smiles#7640.8
Candy's Going Bad#9140.5
The Devil Made Me Do It#7940.5

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At their peak

1982 in music

Golden Earring's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1982 to May 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Men At Work119
  2. 2John Mellencamp116
  3. 3Toto109
  4. 4Daryl Hall and John Oates100
  5. 5Michael Jackson93
  6. 6Lionel Richie86
  7. 7Laura Branigan79
  8. 8Survivor74
  9. 9Fleetwood Mac70
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.