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Wham! U.K.

Charting Aug 20, 1983 → Oct 15, 1983 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Oct 8, 1983
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
October 1982 – October 1983
Peak Five Years
3
October 1978 – October 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.47%
week of Sep 24, 1983
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

1 song · 3 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
Bad Boys#6092.8

At their peak

1982 in music →

Wham! U.K.'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1982 to October 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson158
  2. 2Men At Work135
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates106
  4. 4Culture Club105
  5. 5Lionel Richie105
  6. 6Laura Branigan93
  7. 7Duran Duran87
  8. 8Stray Cats83
  9. 9Billy Joel75
  10. 10Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.