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Rick Dees

Charting Aug 14, 1976Jan 12, 1985 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 33 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Honours

  • Billboard Hot 100

    Artist of the Week
    1 crownFirst crown: Oct 16, 1976
  • Global Music Power

    Artist of the Week
    4 crownsLongest reign 4 weeks: Sep 25, 1976 Oct 16, 1976First crown: Sep 25, 1976
Peak Power
2.39%
week of Nov 27, 1976
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
February 1976 – February 1977
Peak Five Years
47
March 1972 – February 1977
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of Oct 16, 1976
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 · 49 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
Disco Duck (Part I)#12545.4
Dis-Gorilla (Part 1)#5662.0
Eat My Shorts#7551.1

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At their peak

1976 in music

Rick Dees's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1976 to February 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Captain & Tennille100
  2. 2Bee Gees93
  3. 3Daryl Hall John Oates86
  4. 4The Sylvers75
  5. 5Gary Wright75
  6. 6Wings75
  7. 7Peter Frampton73
  8. 8Queen71
  9. 9Steve Miller70
  10. 10England Dan & John Ford Coley66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.