Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bobby Brown

Charting Dec 20, 1986 → Jan 25, 2003 · 161 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 161 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 137 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Sister Circle Live, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1989

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
4 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1989) · First crown Jan 1989
Global Music Power
14 crowns
19862003
Longest reign 7 weeks (Jul–Aug 1989) · First crown Jan 1989

Billboard Hot 100 · 161 wk UK Singles Chart · 137 wk Global Music Power · 206 wk

Peak Power: 3.15%; week of Mar 6, 1993
Career Power: 304; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 146; September 1988 – September 1989
Peak Five Years: 299; July 1988 – June 1993
Top-five weeks: 36; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 161; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.91%; week of Jan 14, 1989
Comebacks: 1; Sep 1992

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

13 records · 304 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
Good EnoughApple Music	#7December 1992	23	October 1992 – March 1993	46.0	48.2
Humpin' AroundApple Music	#3September 1992	20	August 1992 – December 1992	41.2	43.1
My PrerogativeApple Music	#1January 1989	24	October 1988 – April 1989	38.0	39.9
On Our Own (From "Ghostbusters II")Apple Music	#2August 1989	20	June 1989 – October 1989	33.6	35.2
Every Little StepApple Music	#3June 1989	21	March 1989 – August 1989	31.2	32.5
Don't Be CruelApple Music	#8October 1988	26	July 1988 – January 1989	28.4	29.2
Rock Wit'chaApple Music	#7November 1989	21	August 1989 – January 1990	24.9	25.1
RoniApple Music	#3March 1989	17	January 1989 – April 1989	23.7	25.0
Get AwayApple Music	#14February 1993	16	January 1993 – May 1993	18.5	19.8
She Ain't Worth Itfeatured credit · with Glenn MedeirosApple Music	#1July 1990	18	May 1990 – September 1990	10.9	35.6
GirlfriendApple Music	#57January 1987	9	December 1986 – February 1987	3.4	3.4
That's The Way Love IsApple Music	#57May 1993	9	April 1993 – June 1993	2.7	2.7
Thug Lovinfeatured credit · with Ja RuleApple Music	#42December 2002	10	November 2002 – January 2003	1.3	4.3

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At their peak

1988 in music →

Bobby Brown's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.