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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Real Life

Charting Nov 12, 1983Aug 26, 1989 · 46 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 46 wk

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Peak Power
0.84%
week of Aug 5, 1989
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
June 1983 – June 1984
Peak Five Years
20
June 1979 – June 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.50%
week of Jul 22, 1989
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

3 records · 33 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
Send Me An Angel '89#261613.9
Send Me An Angel#291913.2
Catch Me I'm Falling#40116.4

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Culture Club143
  2. 2Michael Jackson128
  3. 3Lionel Richie127
  4. 4The Police122
  5. 5Billy Joel117
  6. 6Duran Duran100
  7. 7Eurythmics96
  8. 8Irene Cara86
  9. 9Daryl Hall and John Oates86
  10. 10Rick Springfield73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.