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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Sad Cafe

Charting Jan 13, 1979Sep 5, 1981 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 13 wk, UK Singles Chart 48 wk

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Peak Power
0.13%
week of Mar 10, 1979
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1978 – March 1979
Peak Five Years
3
September 1976 – September 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.31%
week of Feb 17, 1979
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

2 records · 3 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
Run Home Girl#7191.8
La-Di-Da#7840.8

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At their peak

1978 in music

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

  1. 1Andy Gibb131
  2. 2Bee Gees112
  3. 3Barry Manilow108
  4. 4Olivia Newton-John107
  5. 5Billy Joel94
  6. 6Donna Summer90
  7. 7Foreigner83
  8. 8Gerry Rafferty72
  9. 9Eric Clapton70
  10. 10Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.