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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Michael Sembello portraitMichael Sembello

Charting Jun 4, 1983Nov 26, 1983 · 26 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 26 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
2.52%
week of Oct 8, 1983
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
51
December 1982 – November 1983
Peak Five Years
51
December 1978 – November 1983
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
26
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.58%
week of Sep 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

2 records · 51 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
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At their peak

1982 in music

Michael Sembello's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1982 to November 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson172
  2. 2Men At Work120
  3. 3Culture Club114
  4. 4Lionel Richie110
  5. 5Daryl Hall and John Oates107
  6. 6Duran Duran92
  7. 7Billy Joel87
  8. 8The Police85
  9. 9Prince83
  10. 10David Bowie82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.