Artists · Billboard Hot 100

John Lennon

Charting Jan 9, 1971 → May 5, 1984 · 120 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 120 wk (12 crowns), UK Singles Chart 120 wk (10 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
12 crowns
Longest reign 11 weeks (Dec 1980 – Mar 1981) · First crown Dec 1980
UK Singles Chart
10 crowns
Longest reign 10 weeks (Dec 1980 – Feb 1981) · First crown Dec 1980
Global Music Power
19 crowns
19702012
Longest reign 15 weeks (Dec 1980 – Mar 1981) · First crown Dec 1980

Billboard Hot 100 · 120 wk UK Singles Chart · 120 wk Global Music Power · 179 wk

Peak Power: 3.77%; week of Apr 25, 1981
Career Power: 204; share-weeks
Crowns: 12; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 116; July 1980 – July 1981
Peak Five Years: 142; May 1979 – May 1984
Top-five weeks: 20; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 120; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 5.00%; week of Feb 14, 1981
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1980, after 5 quiet years · Mar 1984

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

12 records · 204 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
(Just Like) Starting OverApple Music	#1December 1980	22	November 1980 – March 1981	51.3	53.4
WomanApple Music	#2March 1981	20	January 1981 – May 1981	44.5	46.7
Nobody Told MeApple Music	#5March 1984	14	January 1984 – April 1984	24.3	24.1
Watching The WheelsApple Music	#10May 1981	17	March 1981 – July 1981	20.0	22.0
#9 DreamApple Music	#9February 1975	12	December 1974 – March 1975	18.4	18.3
MIND GAMESApple Music	#18December 1973	13	November 1973 – February 1974	15.5	15.4
Whatever Gets You Thru The Nightwith The Plastic Ono Nuclear BandApple Music	#1November 1974	15	September 1974 – January 1975	12.1	24.6
Stand By MeApple Music	#20April 1975	9	March 1975 – May 1975	9.4	9.4
Power To The Peoplewith Plastic Ono Band Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band	#11May 1971	9	April 1971 – May 1971	4.7	14.1
I'm Steppin' Out	#55April 1984	6	March 1984 – May 1984	1.8	1.9
Motherwith Plastic Ono Band Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band	#43January 1971	6	January 1971 – February 1971	1.2	3.6
Woman Is The Nigger Of The Worldwith Plastic Ono Band, Elephant's Memory	#57June 1972	5	May 1972 – June 1972	0.6	1.9

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At their peak

1980 in music →

John Lennon's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1980 to July 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.