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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Tubes

Charting Jul 4, 1976Mar 16, 1985 · 47 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 47 wk, UK Singles Chart 20 wk

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Peak Power
1.48%
week of Jul 16, 1983
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
October 1982 – October 1983
Peak Five Years
36
March 1980 – March 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
47
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.63%
week of Jul 2, 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

6 records · 38 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
She's A Beauty#102024.5
Don't Want To Wait Anymore#35127.0
Tip Of My Tongue#5272.6
Don't Touch Me There#6172.5
The Monkey Time#6841.1
Piece By Piece#8720.4

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At their peak

1982 in music

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

  1. 1Michael Jackson160
  2. 2Men At Work133
  3. 3Lionel Richie107
  4. 4Culture Club106
  5. 5Laura Branigan92
  6. 6Duran Duran87
  7. 7Stray Cats84
  8. 8Billy Joel78
  9. 9Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band74
  10. 10The Police74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.