Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Wings

Also credited as Paul McCartney And Wings

Charting Mar 11, 1972 → Sep 13, 1980 · 270 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 270 wk (20 crowns), UK Singles Chart 190 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Jim Summaria, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
20 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jun 1973) · First crown Jun 1973
UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov–Dec 1977) · First crown Aug 1976
Global Music Power
19 crowns
19721980
Longest reign 7 weeks (May–Jul 1976) · First crown Jun 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 270 wk UK Singles Chart · 190 wk Global Music Power · 297 wk

Peak Power: 3.01%; week of Sep 4, 1976
Career Power: 504; share-weeks
Crowns: 20; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 112; May 1973 – May 1974
Peak Five Years: 341; May 1972 – May 1977
Top-five weeks: 57; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 270; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.90%; week of Aug 4, 1973
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

23 records · 504 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)Apple Music	#1June 1980	21	April 1980 – September 1980	47.5	46.9
Silly Love SongsApple Music	#1May 1976	19	April 1976 – August 1976	43.5	44.1
My LoveApple Music	#1June 1973	18	April 1973 – August 1973	38.9	39.7
With A Little LuckApple Music	#1May 1978	18	March 1978 – July 1978	35.4	35.3
Band On The RunApple Music	#1June 1974	18	April 1974 – August 1974	33.9	34.3
Goodnight TonightApple Music	#5May 1979	16	March 1979 – July 1979	32.1	32.1
Listen To What The Man SaidApple Music	#1July 1975	14	May 1975 – August 1975	30.3	30.3
Junior's Farm/Sally GApple Music	#3January 1975	17	November 1974 – March 1975	30.0	30.0
Live And Let DieApple Music	#2August 1973	14	July 1973 – October 1973	30.0	30.8
Let 'em InApple Music	#3August 1976	16	July 1976 – October 1976	29.8	30.7
JetApple Music	#7March 1974	14	February 1974 – May 1974	22.8	23.3
Maybe I'm AmazedApple Music	#10April 1977	13	February 1977 – May 1977	21.4	21.3
Helen WheelsApple Music	#10January 1974	13	November 1973 – February 1974	20.7	20.7
Hi, Hi, HiApple Music	#10February 1973	11	December 1972 – February 1973	18.1	18.1
Venus And Mars Rock ShowApple Music	#12December 1975	9	November 1975 – December 1975	10.9	11.0
Getting CloserApple Music	#20July 1979	10	June 1979 – August 1979	10.5	10.6
Give Ireland Back To The IrishApple Music	#21April 1972	8	March 1972 – April 1972	9.3	9.3
I've Had EnoughApple Music	#25August 1978	11	June 1978 – August 1978	8.8	9.1
Girls' SchoolApple Music	#33January 1978	11	November 1977 – January 1978	7.6	7.5
Arrow Through MeApple Music	#29October 1979	10	August 1979 – October 1979	7.1	7.0
Mary Had A Little Lamb/Little Woman LoveApple Music	#28July 1972	7	June 1972 – July 1972	6.3	6.3
London TownApple Music	#39October 1978	8	September 1978 – October 1978	4.8	4.8
Letting GoApple Music	#39October 1975	6	October 1975 – November 1975	3.8	4.0

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At their peak

1973 in music →

Wings's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1973 to May 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.