Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Kansas

Charting Dec 25, 1976 → Mar 7, 1987 · 144 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 144 wk, UK Singles Chart 7 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 144 wk UK Singles Chart · 7 wk Global Music Power · 147 wk

Peak Power: 2.12%; week of May 13, 1978
Career Power: 137; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 47; July 1977 – July 1978
Peak Five Years: 98; February 1976 – January 1981
Top-five weeks: 2; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 144; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.01%; week of Apr 15, 1978
Comebacks: 2; Jul 1982 · Jan 1987

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

14 records · 137 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
Dust In The WindApple Music	#6April 1978	20	January 1978 – June 1978	34.1	33.7
Carry On Wayward SonApple Music	#11April 1977	20	December 1976 – May 1977	27.0	26.9
All I WantedApple Music	#19January 1987	18	November 1986 – February 1987	17.6	17.4
Play The Game TonightApple Music	#17July 1982	15	May 1982 – August 1982	17.1	17.0
People Of The South WindApple Music	#23August 1979	12	June 1979 – August 1979	12.4	12.1
Point Of Know ReturnApple Music	#28January 1978	14	November 1977 – February 1978	11.6	11.5
Hold OnApple Music	#40November 1980	11	September 1980 – November 1980	5.7	5.6
Reason To BeApple Music	#52October 1979	8	September 1979 – October 1979	3.2	3.2
Fight Fire With FireApple Music	#58October 1983	7	September 1983 – October 1983	2.1	2.0
Portrait (He Knew)Apple Music	#64June 1978	6	June 1978 – July 1978	1.8	1.8
Lonely WindApple Music	#60February 1979	5	January 1979 – February 1979	1.7	1.7
Right AwayApple Music	#73September 1982	6	August 1982 – September 1982	1.5	1.5
Got To Rock OnApple Music	#76January 1981	5	December 1980 – January 1981	1.0	1.0
PowerApple Music	#84February 1987	4	February 1987 – March 1987	0.6	0.7

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At their peak

1977 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.