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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Pete Townshend

Charting Jun 14, 1980Feb 22, 1986 · 41 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 41 wk, UK Singles Chart 20 wk

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Peak Power
1.53%
week of Sep 13, 1980
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
27
December 1979 – December 1980
Peak Five Years
27
December 1975 – December 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
41
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.72%
week of Aug 30, 1980
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 · 40 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
Let My Love Open The Door#91925.3
Face The Face#261613.4
A Little Is Enough#7241.0
Rough Boys#8940.7

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At their peak

1979 in music

Pete Townshend's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1979 to December 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Queen103
  2. 2Kenny Rogers96
  3. 3Air Supply95
  4. 4Christopher Cross91
  5. 5Billy Joel91
  6. 6Michael Jackson87
  7. 7The Spinners79
  8. 8Bob Seger77
  9. 9Diana Ross76
  10. 10Donna Summer73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.