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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Patti Austin

Charting Dec 12, 1981Jun 28, 1986 · 45 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 45 wk, UK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Peak Power
0.26%
week of Jul 23, 1983
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
6
March 1983 – March 1984
Peak Five Years
12
July 1981 – June 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
45
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.55%
week of May 31, 1986
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

4 records · 12 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
How Do You Keep The Music Playingwith James Ingram#45174.1
Every Home Should Have One#62153.9
The Heat Of Heat#5593.2
It's Gonna Be Special#8240.7

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At their peak

1983 in music

Patti Austin's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1983 to March 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson177
  2. 2Culture Club145
  3. 3Lionel Richie128
  4. 4Duran Duran115
  5. 5The Police115
  6. 6Billy Joel104
  7. 7Daryl Hall and John Oates96
  8. 8Irene Cara88
  9. 9Prince84
  10. 10David Bowie82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.