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The Clash portraitThe Clash

Charting Mar 22, 1980Apr 23, 1983 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 55 wk, UK Singles Chart 137 wk (1 crown)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    1 crown

    19772026

    First crown Mar 1991

Peak Power
1.98%
week of Feb 12, 1983
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
44
May 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
56
May 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.79%
week of Jan 29, 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

3 records · 56 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
Rock The Casbah#82433.5
Train In Vain (Stand By Me)#231412.6
Should I Stay Or Should I Go#452310.0

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At their peak

1982 in music

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

  1. 1Toto104
  2. 2Men At Work103
  3. 3Survivor74
  4. 4Lionel Richie71
  5. 5Fleetwood Mac70
  6. 6Michael Jackson69
  7. 7Paul McCartney68
  8. 8Juice Newton67
  9. 9Laura Branigan66
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.