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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bad English

Charting Jul 22, 1989Nov 23, 1991 · 76 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 76 wk, UK Singles Chart 6 wk

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Peak Power
2.27%
week of Mar 17, 1990
Career Power
90
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
79
September 1989 – September 1990
Peak Five Years
90
December 1986 – November 1991
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
76
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.61%
week of Nov 11, 1989
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 · 90 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
When I See You Smile#12235.4
Price Of Love#51926.7
Possession#211714.6
Straight To Your Heart#42136.8
Forget Me Not#45114.9
Heaven Is A 4 Letter Word#6692.1

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At their peak

1989 in music

Bad English's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1989 to September 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson152
  2. 2Roxette113
  3. 3New Kids On The Block112
  4. 4Madonna110
  5. 5Phil Collins101
  6. 6Taylor Dayne99
  7. 7Michael Bolton99
  8. 8Aerosmith88
  9. 9Milli Vanilli87
  10. 10Seduction85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.