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Thomas Dolby portraitThomas Dolby

Charting Feb 19, 1983Apr 7, 1984 · 29 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 29 wk, UK Singles Chart 61 wk

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Peak Power
2.16%
week of Jun 11, 1983
Career Power
41
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
39
July 1982 – July 1983
Peak Five Years
41
April 1979 – April 1984
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of May 14, 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

3 records · 41 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 Blinded Me With Science#52238.1
Hyperactive#6272.0
Europa And The Pirate Twins#6751.0

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At their peak

1982 in music

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

  1. 1Men At Work135
  2. 2Michael Jackson122
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates110
  4. 4Lionel Richie98
  5. 5John Mellencamp96
  6. 6Toto91
  7. 7Laura Branigan87
  8. 8Culture Club80
  9. 9Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band71
  10. 10Duran Duran67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.