Artists · Global Music Power

Rick Dees

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

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard 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

Billboard Hot 100 · 33 wk UK Singles Chart · 9 wk Global Music Power · 33 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 1.95%; week of Nov 27, 1976
Career Power: 40; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 39; February 1976 – February 1977
Peak Five Years: 39; March 1972 – February 1977
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 33; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.24%; 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 Global Music Power

4 records · 39 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Disco Duck (Part I)Apple Music	#1	25	August 1976 – January 1977	31.3	31.3
Disco DuckApple Music	#6	9	September 1976 – November 1976	6.0	6.0
Dis-Gorilla (Part 1)Apple Music	#56	6	January 1977 – February 1977	1.4	1.4
Eat My Shorts	#75	5	December 1984 – January 1985	0.8	0.8

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At their peak

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.