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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Paul Hardcastle

Charting Jan 12, 1985Aug 31, 1985 · 32 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 32 wk, UK Singles Chart 67 wk (5 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    5 crowns

    19842011

    Longest reign 5 weeks (May–Jun 1985) · First crown May 1985

Peak Power
1.21%
week of Aug 10, 1985
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
September 1984 – August 1985
Peak Five Years
22
September 1980 – August 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
32
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.21%
week of Jul 27, 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

2 records · 22 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
19#151417.3
Rain Forest#57185.1

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At their peak

1984 in music

Paul Hardcastle's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1984 to August 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna160
  2. 2Prince And The Revolution125
  3. 3Billy Ocean115
  4. 4Bruce Springsteen108
  5. 5Bryan Adams102
  6. 6Tina Turner99
  7. 7Phil Collins96
  8. 8Daryl Hall and John Oates92
  9. 9Duran Duran88
  10. 10Wham!87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.