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Yazoo portraitYazoo

Also credited as Yaz

Charting Sep 18, 1982Apr 16, 1983 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 16 wk, UK Singles Chart 60 wk

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Peak Power
0.17%
week of Apr 2, 1983
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
April 1982 – April 1983
Peak Five Years
4
April 1978 – April 1983
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.36%
week of Apr 2, 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

2 records · 4 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
Only You#6782.1
Situation#7381.8

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At their peak

1982 in music

Yazoo's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Mellencamp120
  2. 2Toto102
  3. 3Daryl Hall and John Oates101
  4. 4Men At Work101
  5. 5Survivor74
  6. 6Paul McCartney70
  7. 7Fleetwood Mac70
  8. 8Lionel Richie68
  9. 9Juice Newton67
  10. 10Chicago66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.