Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Leo Sayer

Charting Feb 22, 1975 → Apr 11, 1981 · 121 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 121 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 177 wk (3 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jan 1977) · First crown Jan 1977
UK Singles Chart
3 crowns
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Longest reign 3 weeks (Feb 1977) · First crown Feb 1977

Billboard Hot 100 · 121 wk UK Singles Chart · 177 wk Global Music Power · 253 wk

Peak Power: 2.56%; week of Jun 4, 1977
Career Power: 186; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 100; November 1976 – October 1977
Peak Five Years: 166; April 1976 – April 1981
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 121; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of May 14, 1977
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1976 · Nov 1980

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

10 records · 186 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
You Make Me Feel Like DancingApple Music	#1January 1977	21	October 1976 – March 1977	44.3	44.2
More Than I Can SayApple Music	#2December 1980	23	September 1980 – February 1981	42.4	41.6
When I Need YouApple Music	#1May 1977	20	February 1977 – July 1977	36.3	36.5
Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)Apple Music	#9May 1975	15	February 1975 – May 1975	20.6	20.6
How Much LoveApple Music	#17August 1977	15	July 1977 – October 1977	18.5	18.5
Living In A FantasyApple Music	#23March 1981	12	January 1981 – April 1981	9.5	9.6
Easy To LoveApple Music	#36January 1978	10	December 1977 – February 1978	6.2	6.1
Thunder In My HeartApple Music	#38November 1977	9	October 1977 – December 1977	5.6	5.6
Raining In My HeartApple Music	#47November 1978	7	September 1978 – November 1978	2.8	2.8
One Man BandApple Music	#96June 1975	1	June 1975	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1976 in music →

Leo Sayer's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1976 to October 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.