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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Book Of Love

Charting Sep 3, 1988Sep 24, 1988 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.05%
week of Sep 24, 1988
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
October 1987 – September 1988
Peak Five Years
1
October 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.16%
week of Sep 17, 1988
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
Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls#9040.6

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At their peak

1987 in music

Book Of Love's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1987 to September 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson135
  2. 2George Michael135
  3. 3Debbie Gibson111
  4. 4Whitney Houston106
  5. 5INXS104
  6. 6Richard Marx103
  7. 7Tiffany94
  8. 8Belinda Carlisle91
  9. 9Rick Astley87
  10. 10Def Leppard86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.