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Missing Persons portraitMissing Persons

Charting Jul 3, 1982Apr 21, 1984 · 45 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 45 wk

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Peak Power
0.52%
week of Dec 4, 1982
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
15
April 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
17
May 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
45
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.86%
week of Nov 27, 1982
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

5 records · 17 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
Destination Unknown#42146.3
Words#42115.4
Windows#6382.2
Give#6761.6
Walking In L.a.#7061.4

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At their peak

1982 in music

Missing Persons's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Mellencamp120
  2. 2Toto102
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates101
  4. 4Men At Work101
  5. 5Survivor74
  6. 6Paul McCartney70
  7. 7Fleetwood Mac70
  8. 8Lionel Richie68
  9. 9Juice Newton67
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.