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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark portraitOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Also credited as OMD

Charting Aug 31, 1985Jul 2, 1988 · 81 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 81 wk, UK Singles Chart 195 wk

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Peak Power
1.95%
week of Jun 14, 1986
Career Power
81
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
48
January 1986 – January 1987
Peak Five Years
81
July 1983 – July 1988
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
81
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.22%
week of May 31, 1986
Comebacks
1
May 1988

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 · 81 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
If You Leave#42031.5
Dreaming#161718.0
(Forever) Live And Die#191714.5
So In Love#261713.1
Secret#63133.6

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At their peak

1986 in music

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1986 to January 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson110
  2. 2Billy Ocean102
  3. 3Madonna102
  4. 4Miami Sound Machine86
  5. 5Lionel Richie81
  6. 6Robert Palmer77
  7. 7Genesis72
  8. 8Whitney Houston72
  9. 9The Bangles71
  10. 10Mike + The Mechanics63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.