Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Ashanti

Charting Nov 17, 2001 → May 9, 2020 · 193 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 193 wk (15 crowns), UK Singles Chart 132 wk

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Image credits

Photo: New York City Public Schools Press Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 2002

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
15 crowns
Longest reign 15 weeks (Apr–Jul 2002) · First crown Apr 2002
Global Music Power
7 crowns
20012022
Longest reign 6 weeks (May–Jun 2002) · First crown May 2002

Billboard Hot 100 · 193 wk UK Singles Chart · 132 wk Global Music Power · 232 wk

Peak Power: 3.89%; week of Aug 24, 2002
Career Power: 298; share-weeks
Crowns: 15; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 157; December 2001 – December 2002
Peak Five Years: 288; April 2000 – March 2005
Top-five weeks: 37; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 193; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.60%; week of Apr 20, 2002
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

17 records · 298 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
FoolishApple Music	#1April 2002	32	February 2002 – September 2002	73.9	75.9
Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)Apple Music	#2August 2003	21	May 2003 – September 2003	47.1	46.0
HappyApple Music	#8September 2002	23	June 2002 – November 2002	35.0	37.0
Rain On MeApple Music	#7November 2003	20	August 2003 – January 2004	29.6	29.3
Only UApple Music	#13January 2005	19	November 2004 – March 2005	27.1	25.6
BabyApple Music	#15October 2002	22	July 2002 – December 2002	21.5	25.6
Always On Timefeatured credit · with Ja RuleApple Music	#1February 2002	27	November 2001 – May 2002	16.9	66.4
Mesmerizefeatured credit · with Ja RuleApple Music	#2February 2003	20	December 2002 – May 2003	14.1	45.9
What's Luv?featured credit · with Fat JoeApple Music	#2April 2002	28	February 2002 – August 2002	11.7	67.5
The Way That I Love YouApple Music	#37May 2008	18	March 2008 – July 2008	9.5	8.9
Southsidefeatured credit · with LloydApple Music	#24August 2004	20	May 2004 – October 2004	5.9	18.9
Wonderfulfeatured credit · with Ja Rule · feat. R. KellyApple Music	#5November 2004	20	October 2004 – February 2005	4.3	38.7
Body On Mefeatured credit · with Nelly · feat. AkonApple Music	#42October 2008	15	June 2008 – November 2008	0.9	5.5
Down 4 Ufeatured credit · with Irv Gotti Presents The Inc. · feat. Ja Rule, Charli Baltimore, Vita	#6August 2002	20	June 2002 – November 2002	0.7	35.5
NASTYfeatured credit · with DaBaby · feat. Megan Thee Stallion	#50May 2020	2	May 2020 – May 2020	0.1	0.8
Start This S**t Off Rightfeatured credit · with Lil' Wayne · feat. Mack Maine	#76October 2018	1	October 2018	0.1	0.3
Want It, Need Itfeatured credit · with Plies	#96March 2009	1	March 2009	0.0	0.1

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At their peak

2001 in music →

Ashanti's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 2001 to December 2002. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1Ashanti157
2Nelly142
3P!nk120
4Eminem112
5Usher110
6Creed102
7Jennifer Lopez96
8Avril Lavigne92
9Vanessa Carlton92
10Nickelback91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.