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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Al B. Sure! portraitAl B. Sure!

Charting Apr 9, 1988 → Jul 30, 1994 · 90 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 90 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
1.62%
week of Jul 23, 1988
Career Power
52
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
34
February 1988 – January 1989
Peak Five Years
49
January 1988 – January 1993
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
90
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.89%
week of Jul 16, 1988
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

6 records · 52 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
Nite And Day#72127.1
Right Now#47209.2
Missunderstanding#42145.9
Off On Your Own (Girl)#45125.0
Part Time Lover/I'm Still In Love With Youwith H-Town#57162.8
Killing Me Softly#80112.1

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At their peak

1988 in music →

Al B. Sure!'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1988 to January 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1George Michael120
  2. 2Def Leppard112
  3. 3Michael Jackson106
  4. 4INXS98
  5. 5Taylor Dayne95
  6. 6Rick Astley94
  7. 7Whitney Houston83
  8. 8Steve Winwood78
  9. 9Debbie Gibson78
  10. 10Breathe77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.