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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Kongas

Charting Apr 8, 1978May 20, 1978 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 7 wk

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Peak Power
0.10%
week of May 20, 1978
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
May 1977 – May 1978
Peak Five Years
1
June 1973 – May 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.20%
week of May 6, 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

1 song · 1 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
Africanism/Gimme Some Lovin#8471.2

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At their peak

1977 in music

Kongas'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 Gees158
  2. 2Andy Gibb127
  3. 3Shaun Cassidy106
  4. 4Rita Coolidge86
  5. 5Barry Manilow83
  6. 6Fleetwood Mac81
  7. 7Electric Light Orchestra75
  8. 8Linda Ronstadt72
  9. 9Foreigner71
  10. 10Commodores71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.