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Whodini portraitWhodini

Charting Dec 19, 1982Feb 24, 1985 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 3 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
0.24%
week of Jan 23, 1983
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
June 1982 – May 1983
Peak Five Years
5
March 1980 – February 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.72%
week of Jan 9, 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 UK Singles Chart

4 records · 5 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
Magic's Wand#4762.8
The Whodini Electro Ep#6341.4
Haunted House of Rock#8230.6
Freaks Come Out at Night#9710.1

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At their peak

1982 in music

Whodini's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from June 1982 to May 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Culture Club79
  2. 2Duran Duran78
  3. 3Madness72
  4. 4Dexys Midnight Runners67
  5. 5Tears For Fears61
  6. 6The Jam59
  7. 7Shalamar59
  8. 8Wham!59
  9. 9Michael Jackson59
  10. 10Yazoo57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.