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The Gap Band portraitThe Gap Band

Charting Feb 28, 1981Apr 30, 1983 · 48 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 48 wk, UK Singles Chart 91 wk

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Peak Power
1.01%
week of Oct 23, 1982
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
26
May 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
29
May 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
48
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.60%
week of Jul 31, 1982
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

5 records · 29 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
Early In The Morning#241411.7
You Dropped A Bomb On Me#311310.7
Outstanding#5183.6
Yearning For Your Love#6072.0
Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)#8481.4

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At their peak

1982 in music

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

  1. 1John Mellencamp119
  2. 2Toto106
  3. 3Men At Work106
  4. 4Daryl Hall and John Oates102
  5. 5Lionel Richie74
  6. 6Michael Jackson74
  7. 7Survivor74
  8. 8Fleetwood Mac70
  9. 9Laura Branigan68
  10. 10Juice Newton67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.