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Stray Cats portraitStray Cats

Charting Sep 18, 1982Feb 25, 1984 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 63 wk, UK Singles Chart 51 wk

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Peak Power
2.60%
week of Mar 12, 1983
Career Power
100
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
85
November 1982 – November 1983
Peak Five Years
100
March 1979 – February 1984
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
63
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.49%
week of Jan 8, 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

5 records · 100 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
Stray Cat Strut#31933.5
Rock This Town#92129.7
(she's) Sexy + 17#51527.6
I Won't Stand In Your Way#35137.6
Look At That Cadillac#6851.2

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At their peak

1982 in music

Stray Cats's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1982 to November 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson165
  2. 2Men At Work129
  3. 3Lionel Richie109
  4. 4Culture Club108
  5. 5Laura Branigan89
  6. 6Duran Duran88
  7. 7Stray Cats85
  8. 8Billy Joel82
  9. 9The Police79
  10. 10Prince78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.