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Thelma Houston portraitThelma Houston

Charting Jan 31, 1970Jun 16, 1979 · 51 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 51 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 25 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19701995

    First crown Apr 1977

Peak Power
2.41%
week of May 7, 1977
Career Power
58
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
50
August 1976 – August 1977
Peak Five Years
57
June 1974 – June 1979
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
51
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.52%
week of Apr 23, 1977
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

4 records · 58 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
Don't Leave Me This Way#12444.2
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning#34137.5
If It's The Last Thing I Do#47115.5
Save The Country#7430.7

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At their peak

1976 in music

Thelma Houston's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1976 to August 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Eagles90
  2. 2Leo Sayer87
  3. 3Fleetwood Mac85
  4. 4KC And The Sunshine Band84
  5. 5Bee Gees81
  6. 6Daryl Hall and John Oates81
  7. 7ABBA80
  8. 8Barbra Streisand79
  9. 9Stevie Wonder72
  10. 10Steve Miller72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.