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Weird Al" Yankovic portraitWeird Al" Yankovic

Charting Apr 30, 1983 → Aug 9, 2014 · 84 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 84 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 84 wkUK Singles Chart · 14 wkGlobal Music Power · 88 wk
Peak Power
1.13%
week of Nov 25, 2006
Career Power
61
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
25
March 2006 – February 2007
Peak Five Years
25
March 2002 – February 2007
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
84
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.89%
week of Oct 21, 2006
Comebacks
1
Nov 2006, after 22 quiet years

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

11 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
White & Nerdy#92024.2
Eat It#121215.4
Smells Like Nirvana#35116.2
Amish Paradise#53166.0
Like A Surgeon#4783.5
Ricky#6382.2
King Of Suede#6261.6
Word Crimes#3921.2
I Lost On Jeopardy#8130.6
Canadian Idiot#8230.3
Fat#9920.2

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At their peak

2006 in music →

Weird Al" Yankovic's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 2006 to February 2007. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Fray139
  2. 2Justin Timberlake111
  3. 3Nickelback110
  4. 4Beyonce110
  5. 5Fergie101
  6. 6The All-American Rejects101
  7. 7Nelly Furtado101
  8. 8Chris Brown100
  9. 9Sean Paul97
  10. 10Ne-Yo88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.