Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Lionel Richie

Charting Jul 11, 1981 → Dec 16, 2006 · 301 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 301 wk (18 crowns), UK Singles Chart 203 wk (5 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: U.S. State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1984

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
18 crowns
Longest reign 10 weeks (Nov 1983 – Jan 1984) · First crown Nov 1982
UK Singles Chart
5 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Mar–Apr 1984) · First crown Mar 1984
Global Music Power
16 crowns
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Longest reign 7 weeks (Nov–Dec 1982) · First crown Nov 1982

Billboard Hot 100 · 301 wk UK Singles Chart · 203 wk Global Music Power · 344 wk

Peak Power: 3.49%; week of Jan 21, 1984
Career Power: 496; share-weeks
Crowns: 18; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 158; October 1983 – September 1984
Peak Five Years: 431; July 1982 – June 1987
Top-five weeks: 51; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 301; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.38%; week of Dec 17, 1983
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

20 records · 496 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
All Night Long (All Night)Apple Music	#1November 1983	24	September 1983 – February 1984	52.2	53.4
HelloApple Music	#1May 1984	24	February 1984 – August 1984	46.4	46.6
Say You, Say MeApple Music	#1December 1985	20	November 1985 – March 1986	44.2	43.6
TrulyApple Music	#1November 1982	18	October 1982 – February 1983	37.0	37.1
Stuck On YouApple Music	#3August 1984	19	June 1984 – October 1984	35.7	35.8
You AreApple Music	#4March 1983	18	January 1983 – May 1983	35.5	35.7
Dancing On The CeilingApple Music	#2September 1986	17	July 1986 – November 1986	34.6	35.1
Endless Lovewith Diana RossApple Music	#1August 1981	27	July 1981 – January 1982	29.2	57.6
Penny LoverApple Music	#8December 1984	18	October 1984 – February 1985	28.7	28.4
Running With The NightApple Music	#7February 1984	19	November 1983 – March 1984	27.9	31.4
My LoveApple Music	#5June 1983	16	April 1983 – July 1983	25.8	26.7
Love Will Conquer AllApple Music	#9November 1986	18	October 1986 – January 1987	24.6	25.3
Ballerina GirlApple Music	#7February 1987	18	December 1986 – April 1987	23.4	24.3
Do It To MeApple Music	#21June 1992	20	May 1992 – September 1992	17.6	17.3
Se LaApple Music	#20May 1987	13	March 1987 – June 1987	13.5	13.4
Don't Wanna Lose YouApple Music	#39May 1996	15	April 1996 – July 1996	7.4	7.3
I Call It LoveApple Music	#62October 2006	20	August 2006 – December 2006	5.6	5.5
AngelApple Music	#70May 2001	18	May 2001 – September 2001	3.3	3.3
Just For YouApple Music	#92June 2004	17	May 2004 – August 2004	2.4	2.3
Deep River WomanApple Music	#71February 1987	8	January 1987 – March 1987	1.1	1.8

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At their peak

1983 in music →

Lionel Richie's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1983 to September 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.