Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Irene Cara

Charting Jun 14, 1980 → Aug 25, 1984 · 119 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 119 wk, UK Singles Chart 36 wk (3 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Aaron Rapoport . Published and Distributed by Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
3 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jul 1982) · First crown Jul 1982
Global Music Power
2 crowns
19801984
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 1983) · First crown Jul 1983

Billboard Hot 100 · 119 wk UK Singles Chart · 36 wk Global Music Power · 135 wk

Peak Power: 2.79%; week of Aug 13, 1983
Career Power: 175; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 90; May 1983 – April 1984
Peak Five Years: 175; September 1979 – August 1984
Top-five weeks: 16; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 119; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.77%; week of Sep 20, 1980
Comebacks: 1; May 1983

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

8 records · 175 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
Flashdance...What A FeelingApple Music	#1May 1983	25	April 1983 – September 1983	59.8	58.5
FameApple Music	#4September 1980	26	June 1980 – December 1980	34.5	34.8
BreakdanceApple Music	#8June 1984	19	March 1984 – July 1984	27.1	26.8
Why Me?Apple Music	#13December 1983	15	October 1983 – January 1984	20.8	20.8
Out Here On My OwnApple Music	#19November 1980	23	August 1980 – January 1981	16.6	18.3
The DreamApple Music	#37February 1984	14	December 1983 – March 1984	8.0	8.6
Anyone Can SeeApple Music	#42March 1982	18	November 1981 – April 1982	7.7	7.6
You Were Made For MeApple Music	#78August 1984	5	July 1984 – August 1984	0.9	0.9

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At their peak

1983 in music →

Irene Cara's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1983 to April 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.