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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Machine

Charting Mar 17, 1979May 19, 1979 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 10 wk

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Peak Power
0.12%
week of May 19, 1979
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
May 1978 – May 1979
Peak Five Years
2
June 1974 – May 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.26%
week of Apr 14, 1979
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 · 2 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
There But For The Grace Of God Go I#77101.8

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At their peak

1978 in music

Machine's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1978 to May 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Olivia Newton-John108
  2. 2Donna Summer104
  3. 3Andy Gibb103
  4. 4Bee Gees91
  5. 5Billy Joel87
  6. 6Chic86
  7. 7Village People86
  8. 8Foreigner83
  9. 9Barry Manilow77
  10. 10Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.