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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bob Geldof portraitBob Geldof

Charting Dec 13, 1986Jan 17, 1987 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 6 wk, UK Singles Chart 22 wk

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Peak Power
0.09%
week of Jan 17, 1987
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
January 1986 – January 1987
Peak Five Years
1
January 1982 – January 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.22%
week of Jan 10, 1987
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

1 song · 1 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
This Is The World Calling#8261.1

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At their peak

1986 in music

Bob Geldof's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1986 to January 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson116
  2. 2Madonna108
  3. 3Billy Ocean103
  4. 4Miami Sound Machine85
  5. 5Genesis77
  6. 6The Bangles77
  7. 7Lionel Richie77
  8. 8Robert Palmer77
  9. 9Whitney Houston69
  10. 10Huey Lewis & The News64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.