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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Inmates

Charting Dec 8, 1979Feb 9, 1980 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 10 wk, UK Singles Chart 9 wk

Compare with other artists
Peak Power
0.28%
week of Jan 26, 1980
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
February 1979 – February 1980
Peak Five Years
4
February 1975 – February 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.63%
week of Jan 19, 1980
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

1 song · 4 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
Dirty Water#51103.7

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At their peak

1979 in music

The Inmates's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1979 to February 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Summer155
  2. 2Kenny Rogers96
  3. 3Chic86
  4. 4Little River Band83
  5. 5Commodores78
  6. 6Supertramp75
  7. 7Styx73
  8. 8Peaches & Herb73
  9. 9Bee Gees72
  10. 10Michael Jackson68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.