Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Styx

Charting Sep 16, 1972 → Jul 20, 1991 · 268 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 268 wk (6 crowns), UK Singles Chart 24 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
6 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar–Apr 1981) · First crown Dec 1979
Global Music Power
1 crown
19721991
First crown Mar 1981

Billboard Hot 100 · 268 wk UK Singles Chart · 24 wk Global Music Power · 269 wk

Peak Power: 2.86%; week of May 16, 1981
Career Power: 362; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 74; March 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years: 229; September 1978 – September 1983
Top-five weeks: 21; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 268; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.32%; week of Apr 11, 1981
Comebacks: 3; Dec 1977 · Mar 1983 · Mar 1991, after 7 quiet years

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

23 records · 362 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
BabeApple Music	#1December 1979	19	October 1979 – February 1980	42.8	42.4
The Best Of TimesApple Music	#3March 1981	19	January 1981 – May 1981	40.6	40.6
Mr. RobotoApple Music	#3April 1983	18	February 1983 – June 1983	37.1	37.5
Come Sail AwayApple Music	#8January 1978	22	September 1977 – February 1978	33.1	32.6
Don't Let It EndApple Music	#6July 1983	16	April 1983 – August 1983	28.0	28.9
Show Me The WayApple Music	#3March 1991	23	December 1990 – May 1991	27.9	27.8
Too Much Time On My HandsApple Music	#9May 1981	19	March 1981 – July 1981	25.0	27.5
LadyApple Music	#6March 1975	17	December 1974 – April 1975	24.7	24.7
RenegadeApple Music	#16June 1979	19	March 1979 – July 1979	22.2	22.0
Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)Apple Music	#21November 1978	14	September 1978 – December 1978	13.4	13.3
Love At First SightApple Music	#25June 1991	16	April 1991 – July 1991	11.8	12.0
LoreleiApple Music	#27April 1976	14	February 1976 – May 1976	10.0	10.0
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)Apple Music	#29April 1978	14	February 1978 – May 1978	9.8	9.7
Why MeApple Music	#26February 1980	13	December 1979 – March 1980	9.0	10.2
MademoiselleApple Music	#36December 1976	11	November 1976 – January 1977	7.2	7.2
Music TimeApple Music	#40June 1984	9	May 1984 – June 1984	5.3	5.3
Sing For The DayApple Music	#41February 1979	8	January 1979 – February 1979	4.6	4.5
High TimeApple Music	#48September 1983	7	August 1983 – September 1983	3.2	3.2
Nothing Ever Goes As PlannedApple Music	#54August 1981	8	July 1981 – August 1981	2.4	2.4
Borrowed TimeApple Music	#64April 1980	6	March 1980 – May 1980	1.6	1.6
Love Is The RitualApple Music	#80October 1990	6	October 1990 – November 1990	1.1	1.1
Best ThingApple Music	#82October 1972	6	September 1972 – October 1972	1.1	1.1
You Need LoveApple Music	#88May 1975	2	May 1975 – May 1975	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1979 in music →

Styx's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.