Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The J. Geils Band

Charting Dec 4, 1971 → Aug 17, 1985 · 159 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 159 wk (10 crowns), UK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Premiere Talent Associates (management), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
10 crowns
Longest reign 10 weeks (Feb–Apr 1982) · First crown Feb 1982
Global Music Power
8 crowns
19711985
Longest reign 8 weeks (Feb–Apr 1982) · First crown Feb 1982

Billboard Hot 100 · 159 wk UK Singles Chart · 19 wk Global Music Power · 160 wk

Peak Power: 3.43%; week of Apr 10, 1982
Career Power: 168; share-weeks
Crowns: 10; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 90; August 1981 – July 1982
Peak Five Years: 132; April 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks: 17; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 159; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.62%; week of Mar 20, 1982
Comebacks: 1; Jan 1982, after 7 quiet years

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

17 records · 168 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
CenterfoldApple Music	#1February 1982	25	November 1981 – April 1982	55.0	55.4
Freeze-frameApple Music	#4April 1982	16	February 1982 – June 1982	29.4	31.9
Must Of Got LostApple Music	#12January 1975	11	November 1974 – January 1975	14.9	14.9
I DoApple Music	#24January 1983	14	November 1982 – February 1983	13.3	13.2
Give It To MeApple Music	#30June 1973	16	March 1973 – July 1973	11.2	11.2
Come BackApple Music	#32March 1980	12	February 1980 – April 1980	8.5	8.5
One Last KissApple Music	#35February 1979	13	November 1978 – February 1979	8.4	8.4
Love StinksApple Music	#38May 1980	12	April 1980 – June 1980	6.5	6.5
Angel In BlueApple Music	#40July 1982	11	May 1982 – July 1982	6.1	6.2
Looking For A LoveApple Music	#39January 1972	10	December 1971 – February 1972	6.1	6.0
Land Of A Thousand DancesApple Music	#60March 1983	6	February 1983 – April 1983	2.1	2.1
Concealed Weapons	#63December 1984	7	November 1984 – December 1984	2.0	2.0
Where Did Our Love GoApple Music	#68May 1976	6	April 1976 – May 1976	1.7	1.7
Take It BackApple Music	#67April 1979	6	March 1979 – April 1979	1.6	1.6
Just Can't WaitApple Music	#78July 1980	5	July 1980 – August 1980	0.9	0.9
Fright Night	#91August 1985	2	August 1985 – August 1985	0.3	0.3
Make Up Your MindApple Music	#98September 1973	2	September 1973 – September 1973	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1981 in music →

The J. Geils Band's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1981 to July 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.