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Breathe portraitBreathe

Charting Apr 16, 1988Feb 9, 1991 · 80 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 80 wk, UK Singles Chart 38 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19861991

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug 1988) · First crown Aug 1988

Peak Power
2.45%
week of Dec 17, 1988
Career Power
117
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
96
April 1988 – April 1989
Peak Five Years
117
February 1986 – February 1991
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
80
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.45%
week of Aug 13, 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

5 records · 117 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
Hands To Heaven#22939.4
How Can I Fall?#32236.4
Don't Tell Me Lies#101620.5
Say A Prayer#211514.5
Does She Love That Man?feat. David Glasper#34135.8

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At their peak

1988 in music

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

  1. 1Def Leppard111
  2. 2Poison98
  3. 3Breathe96
  4. 4Chicago94
  5. 5George Michael94
  6. 6Bobby Brown93
  7. 7Guns N' Roses91
  8. 8Taylor Dayne83
  9. 9Steve Winwood83
  10. 10Debbie Gibson83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.