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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Charting Feb 2, 1980Mar 29, 1980 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 9 wk, UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Mar 29, 1980
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
April 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years
3
April 1975 – March 1980
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.46%
week of Mar 15, 1980
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
Computer Game "Theme From The Circus#6092.9

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At their peak

1979 in music

Yellow Magic Orchestra's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Donna Summer165
  2. 2Kenny Rogers95
  3. 3Michael Jackson90
  4. 4Commodores84
  5. 5Supertramp75
  6. 6Styx73
  7. 7The Knack71
  8. 8Dr. Hook71
  9. 9Little River Band69
  10. 10Eagles69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.