Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Billy Ocean

Charting Apr 3, 1976 → Dec 2, 1989 · 176 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 176 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 161 wk (2 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
5 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jun–Jul 1986) · First crown Jun 1986
UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1986) · First crown Feb 1986
Global Music Power
4 crowns
19761993
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1986) · First crown Nov 1984

Billboard Hot 100 · 176 wk UK Singles Chart · 161 wk Global Music Power · 234 wk

Peak Power: 2.64%; week of Mar 2, 1985
Career Power: 303; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 115; September 1984 – September 1985
Peak Five Years: 287; September 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks: 26; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 176; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.60%; week of Nov 3, 1984
Comebacks: 1; Mar 1988

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

12 records · 303 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
Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)Apple Music	#1November 1984	26	August 1984 – February 1985	40.3	40.5
There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)Apple Music	#1July 1986	21	April 1986 – September 1986	36.8	36.9
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My CarApple Music	#1April 1988	20	February 1988 – June 1988	36.3	36.2
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get GoingApple Music	#2February 1986	23	November 1985 – May 1986	35.1	34.8
Lover Boy	#2February 1985	21	December 1984 – April 1985	34.9	35.0
SuddenlyApple Music	#4June 1985	22	March 1985 – August 1985	31.6	31.6
Love ZoneApple Music	#10September 1986	16	July 1986 – November 1986	22.2	22.4
Love Is ForeverApple Music	#16December 1986	16	October 1986 – February 1987	19.7	19.5
The Colour Of LoveApple Music	#17July 1988	16	May 1988 – September 1988	16.4	16.3
Mystery LadyApple Music	#24August 1985	15	July 1985 – October 1985	13.6	13.8
Love Really Hurts Without YouApple Music	#22May 1976	11	April 1976 – June 1976	10.4	10.3
Licence To Chill	#32November 1989	9	October 1989 – December 1989	5.8	5.7

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Billy Ocean's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1984 to September 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.