Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Rick James

Charting Jul 1, 1978 → May 18, 1985 · 131 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 131 wk, UK Singles Chart 48 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 131 wk UK Singles Chart · 48 wk Global Music Power · 155 wk

Peak Power: 1.40%; week of Nov 7, 1981
Career Power: 84; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 30; June 1978 – June 1979
Peak Five Years: 63; August 1977 – July 1982
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 131; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.35%; week of Sep 30, 1978
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1981

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

12 records · 84 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
Super Freak (Part I)Apple Music	#16October 1981	24	August 1981 – January 1982	23.3	23.0
You And IApple Music	#13September 1978	17	July 1978 – October 1978	21.5	21.2
17Apple Music	#36August 1984	14	July 1984 – October 1984	8.4	8.3
Cold BloodedApple Music	#40September 1983	12	July 1983 – October 1983	6.4	6.3
Mary JaneApple Music	#41January 1979	12	November 1978 – January 1979	6.3	6.3
Give It To Me BabyApple Music	#40July 1981	14	May 1981 – August 1981	6.3	6.4
Can't StopApple Music	#50April 1985	8	March 1985 – May 1985	3.4	3.4
Ebony Eyeswith Smokey RobinsonApple Music	#43January 1984	11	December 1983 – February 1984	3.2	6.2
Dance Wit' Me - Part 1Apple Music	#64June 1982	9	May 1982 – July 1982	2.4	2.4
Bustin' OutApple Music	#71June 1979	6	May 1979 – June 1979	1.4	1.4
High On Your Love SuiteApple Music	#72April 1979	6	April 1979 – May 1979	1.1	1.2
Standing On The Top-Part 1featured credit · with The Temptations	#66June 1982	8	May 1982 – June 1982	0.5	2.2

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At their peak

1978 in music →

Rick James's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1978 to June 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.