Artists · Billboard Hot 100
Walter Murphy
Charting May 29, 1976 → Sep 25, 1982 · 43 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 43 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 9 wk
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 →
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.
| Song | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Record Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Fifth of BeethovenApple Music | #1 | 28 | 52.6 | ||
| Flight '76Apple Music | #44 | 10 | 5.1 | ||
| Themes From E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) | #47 | 9 | 3.6 |
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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:
- 1Captain & Tennille105
- 2Bee Gees93
- 3Gary Wright81
- 4Daryl Hall John Oates81
- 5Peter Frampton74
- 6Wings73
- 7Queen67
- 8England Dan & John Ford Coley66
- 9The Sylvers63
- 10Dr. Hook63
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.