Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Wham!

Charting Sep 8, 1984 → Jan 3, 2026 · 155 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 155 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 233 wk (19 crowns)

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Photo: Louise Palanker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
First crown Dec 1984
UK Singles Chart
19 crowns
Longest reign 7 weeks (Nov 1985 – Jan 1986) · First crown May 1984
Global Music Power
1 crown
19822026
First crown Dec 1984

Billboard Hot 100 · 155 wk UK Singles Chart · 233 wk Global Music Power · 300 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.75%; week of Jun 15, 1985
Career Power: 314; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 127; October 1984 – October 1985
Peak Five Years: 188; December 1981 – November 1986
Top-five weeks: 19; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 155; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.76%; week of Dec 24, 2022
Comebacks: 1; Jan 2022, after 35 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

8 records · 314 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
Last ChristmasApple Music	#2December 2025	52	January 2017 – January 2026	124.9	114.5
Wake Me Up Before You Go-GoApple Music	#1November 1984	24	September 1984 – February 1985	41.9	41.8
Everything She WantsApple Music	#1May 1985	20	March 1985 – August 1985	35.3	35.5
I'm Your ManApple Music	#3February 1986	18	November 1985 – March 1986	30.9	30.4
Careless Whisperfeat. George Michael	#1February 1985	22	December 1984 – January 2017	29.7	44.0
FreedomApple Music	#3September 1985	18	July 1985 – November 1985	29.0	28.5
The Edge Of HeavenApple Music	#10August 1986	13	July 1986 – September 1986	18.7	18.4
Where Did Your Heart Go?Apple Music	#50November 1986	8	October 1986 – November 1986	3.5	3.4

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Wham!'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1984 to October 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.