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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Talk Talk

Charting Oct 16, 1982Feb 22, 1986 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 28 wk, UK Singles Chart 87 wk

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Peak Power
0.68%
week of Jun 2, 1984
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
July 1983 – July 1984
Peak Five Years
13
March 1981 – February 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.26%
week of May 19, 1984
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 · 13 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
It's My Life#311410.3
Talk Talk#7571.2
Life's What You Make It#9040.6
Such A Shame#8930.5

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Culture Club134
  2. 2Lionel Richie130
  3. 3Billy Joel122
  4. 4Duran Duran109
  5. 5Michael Jackson108
  6. 6The Police104
  7. 7Eurythmics95
  8. 8Huey Lewis & The News86
  9. 9Cyndi Lauper75
  10. 10Irene Cara74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.