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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Walter Murphy

Charting May 29, 1976Sep 25, 1982 · 43 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 43 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Honours

  • Billboard Hot 100

    Artist of the Week
    1 crownFirst crown: Oct 9, 1976
Peak Power
2.56%
week of Oct 30, 1976
Career Power
61
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
58
January 1976 – January 1977
Peak Five Years
58
January 1972 – January 1977
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.53%
week of Oct 9, 1976
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 · 61 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
A Fifth of Beethoven#12852.6
Flight '76#44105.1
Themes From E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial)#4793.6

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At their peak

1976 in music

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

  1. 1Captain & Tennille105
  2. 2Bee Gees93
  3. 3Gary Wright81
  4. 4Daryl Hall John Oates81
  5. 5Peter Frampton74
  6. 6Wings73
  7. 7Queen67
  8. 8England Dan & John Ford Coley66
  9. 9The Sylvers63
  10. 10Dr. Hook63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.