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Talking Heads portraitTalking Heads

Charting Feb 18, 1978Jan 24, 1987 · 97 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 97 wk, UK Singles Chart 66 wk

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Peak Power
1.45%
week of Nov 12, 1983
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
26
January 1983 – January 1984
Peak Five Years
47
February 1982 – January 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
97
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.71%
week of Oct 22, 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

8 records · 63 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
Burning Down The House#92024.0
Wild Wild Life#252114.7
Take Me To The River#261714.6
And She Was#54205.5
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)#6282.3
Life During Wartime (This Ain't No Party...This Ain't No Disco...This Ain't#8051.0
Psycho Killer#9250.7
Once In A Lifetime#9140.6

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At their peak

1983 in music

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

  1. 1Michael Jackson179
  2. 2Culture Club135
  3. 3Lionel Richie120
  4. 4Duran Duran113
  5. 5Billy Joel102
  6. 6Men At Work100
  7. 7The Police100
  8. 8Irene Cara83
  9. 9David Bowie82
  10. 10Prince82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.