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Walter Egan portraitWalter Egan

Charting Jun 11, 1977Jun 11, 1983 · 43 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 43 wk

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Peak Power
1.66%
week of Sep 16, 1978
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
December 1977 – November 1978
Peak Five Years
35
June 1978 – May 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.79%
week of Aug 26, 1978
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 · 37 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
Magnet And Steel#82228.7
Fool Moon Fire#46104.8
Hot Summer Nights#5572.5
Only The Lucky#8261.0

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At their peak

1977 in music

Walter Egan's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1977 to November 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Andy Gibb143
  2. 2Bee Gees138
  3. 3Barry Manilow93
  4. 4Billy Joel89
  5. 5Donna Summer76
  6. 6Foreigner75
  7. 7Player74
  8. 8Olivia Newton-John72
  9. 9Linda Ronstadt69
  10. 10Eric Clapton66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.