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K.C.

Charting Nov 17, 1979May 12, 1984 · 50 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 50 wk

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Peak Power
1.18%
week of Apr 7, 1984
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
May 1983 – May 1984
Peak Five Years
40
May 1979 – May 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.99%
week of Mar 17, 1984
Comebacks
1
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

3 records · 40 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
Give It Up#182120.4
Yes, I'm Readywith Teri DeSario#22319.3
Dancin' In The Streetswith Teri DeSario#6660.8

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Culture Club145
  2. 2Michael Jackson140
  3. 3Lionel Richie125
  4. 4The Police123
  5. 5Billy Joel110
  6. 6Duran Duran97
  7. 7Eurythmics93
  8. 8Daryl Hall and John Oates92
  9. 9Irene Cara89
  10. 10Rick Springfield73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.