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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Jay Ferguson

Charting Dec 17, 1977Aug 4, 1979 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 35 wk

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Peak Power
1.69%
week of Apr 8, 1978
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
May 1977 – May 1978
Peak Five Years
38
August 1974 – August 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
35
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.73%
week of Apr 1, 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

2 records · 38 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
Thunder Island#92128.0
Shakedown Cruise#311410.2

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At their peak

1977 in music

Jay Ferguson's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1977 to May 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bee Gees151
  2. 2Andy Gibb123
  3. 3Shaun Cassidy104
  4. 4Rita Coolidge87
  5. 5Fleetwood Mac86
  6. 6Barry Manilow78
  7. 7Foreigner76
  8. 8KC And The Sunshine Band72
  9. 9Electric Light Orchestra72
  10. 10Commodores71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.