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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

USA For Africa

Charting Mar 23, 1985Jul 20, 1985 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 18 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    2 crowns

    19852009

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr–May 1985) · First crown Apr 1985

Peak Power
2.14%
week of May 25, 1985
Career Power
36
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
36
July 1984 – July 1985
Peak Five Years
36
August 1980 – July 1985
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.62%
week of Apr 27, 1985
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 · 36 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
We Are The World#11836.3

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At their peak

1984 in music

USA For Africa's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1984 to July 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna158
  2. 2Prince And The Revolution117
  3. 3Bruce Springsteen112
  4. 4Billy Ocean108
  5. 5Tina Turner105
  6. 6Chicago93
  7. 7Cyndi Lauper92
  8. 8Daryl Hall and John Oates91
  9. 9Bryan Adams85
  10. 10Duran Duran82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.