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Alphaville portraitAlphaville

Charting Nov 24, 1984Feb 22, 2025 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 33 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.24%
week of Jan 14, 1989
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
February 1988 – January 1989
Peak Five Years
7
February 1984 – January 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.39%
week of Dec 24, 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

3 records · 7 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
Forever Young#65184.5
Big In Japan#66102.8
Forever Youngwith David Guetta, Ava Max#9050.3

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At their peak

1988 in music

Alphaville'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, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.