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Charting Oct 7, 1978 → Feb 9, 1980 · 36 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 36 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 36 wk UK Singles Chart · 3 wk Global Music Power · 39 wk

Peak Power: 0.55%; week of Dec 16, 1978
Career Power: 12; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 10; September 1978 – September 1979
Peak Five Years: 12; February 1975 – February 1980
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 36; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.05%; week of Dec 9, 1978
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

3 records · 12 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
There'll Never BeApple Music	#36December 1978	13	October 1978 – December 1978	7.7	7.7
I Call Your NameApple Music	#83January 1980	15	November 1979 – February 1980	2.4	2.3
Best Beat In TownApple Music	#69September 1979	8	July 1979 – September 1979	1.8	1.8

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At their peak

1978 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.