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Spandau Ballet portraitSpandau Ballet

Charting Aug 6, 1983Oct 13, 1984 · 46 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 46 wk, UK Singles Chart 160 wk (3 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    3 crowns

    19802009

    Longest reign 3 weeks (May 1983) · First crown May 1983

Peak Power
2.04%
week of Nov 12, 1983
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
48
August 1983 – August 1984
Peak Five Years
56
October 1979 – October 1984
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.24%
week of Oct 15, 1983
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

4 records · 56 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
True#41834.6
Gold#291210.2
Only When You Leave#34128.6
Communication#5972.1

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Lionel Richie140
  2. 2Culture Club126
  3. 3Billy Joel122
  4. 4Duran Duran102
  5. 5Michael Jackson95
  6. 6Huey Lewis & The News95
  7. 7The Police90
  8. 8Eurythmics86
  9. 9Cyndi Lauper82
  10. 10Van Halen75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.