Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Human League

Charting Mar 6, 1982 → Jun 10, 1995 · 109 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 109 wk (6 crowns), UK Singles Chart 147 wk (10 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Andi064 Andy Mac Giolla Eoin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
6 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Jun–Jul 1982) · First crown Jun 1982
UK Singles Chart
10 crowns
19802014
Longest reign 9 weeks (Dec 1981 – Jan 1982) · First crown Oct 1981

Billboard Hot 100 · 109 wk UK Singles Chart · 147 wk Global Music Power · 234 wk

Peak Power: 2.58%; week of Aug 7, 1982
Career Power: 153; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 55; September 1981 – September 1982
Peak Five Years: 136; February 1982 – February 1987
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 109; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.55%; week of Nov 22, 1986
Comebacks: 1; Nov 1986

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 · 153 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
Don't You Want MeApple Music	#1July 1982	28	March 1982 – September 1982	54.6	54.1
HumanApple Music	#1November 1986	20	September 1986 – January 1987	36.4	36.2
(Keep Feeling) FascinationApple Music	#8August 1983	20	May 1983 – October 1983	30.9	30.5
Tell Me WhenApple Music	#31April 1995	12	March 1995 – June 1995	9.1	8.8
Mirror ManApple Music	#30November 1983	12	October 1983 – December 1983	8.6	8.6
Heart Like A WheelApple Music	#32November 1990	11	September 1990 – December 1990	7.2	7.1
I Need Your LovingApple Music	#44January 1987	11	December 1986 – February 1987	4.5	5.4
The LebanonApple Music	#64June 1984	5	June 1984 – July 1984	1.5	1.4

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At their peak

1981 in music →

The Human League's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1981 to September 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.