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Patti LaBelle portraitPatti LaBelle

Charting Jan 7, 1984Feb 5, 2005 · 125 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 125 wk, UK Singles Chart 21 wk

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Peak Power
1.18%
week of Jun 1, 1985
Career Power
71
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
October 1985 – October 1986
Peak Five Years
59
October 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
125
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.06%
week of May 11, 1985
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

11 records · 71 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
On My Ownwith Michael McDonald#12320.6
New Attitude#172119.3
Oh, People#29127.5
Stir It Up#41146.6
If Only You Knew#46134.9
The Right Kinda Lover#61164.6
When You Talk About Love#56124.0
If You Asked Me To (From "Licence To Kill")#7951.1
Gotta Go Solofeat. Ron Isley#8991.0
New Day#9370.9
Love Has Finally Come At Lastwith Bobby Womack#8850.3

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At their peak

1985 in music

Patti LaBelle's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1985 to October 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston98
  2. 2Mr. Mister97
  3. 3John Mellencamp95
  4. 4Billy Ocean90
  5. 5Heart89
  6. 6Miami Sound Machine86
  7. 7Starship82
  8. 8Madonna77
  9. 9Janet Jackson77
  10. 10Lionel Richie76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.