Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bryan Adams

Charting Mar 13, 1982 → Apr 5, 1997 · 318 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 318 wk (11 crowns), UK Singles Chart 263 wk (16 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Year: 1991

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
11 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug 1991) · First crown Jun 1985
UK Singles Chart
16 crowns
Longest reign 16 weeks (Jul–Oct 1991) · First crown Jul 1991
Global Music Power
17 crowns
19822024
Longest reign 17 weeks (Jul–Nov 1991) · First crown Jul 1991

Billboard Hot 100 · 318 wk UK Singles Chart · 263 wk Global Music Power · 426 wk

Peak Power: 3.21%; week of Nov 23, 1991
Career Power: 555; share-weeks
Crowns: 11; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 125; December 1984 – November 1985
Peak Five Years: 280; June 1991 – June 1996
Top-five weeks: 39; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 318; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.92%; week of Jun 29, 1985
Comebacks: 3; May 1987 · Jul 1991 · Nov 1996

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

25 records · 555 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
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?Apple Music	#1June 1995	24	April 1995 – September 1995	57.0	55.6
Please Forgive MeApple Music	#7November 1993	28	October 1993 – April 1994	56.5	54.6
(Everything I Do) I Do It For YouApple Music	#1July 1991	22	June 1991 – November 1991	46.9	48.4
Can't Stop This Thing We StartedApple Music	#2November 1991	20	September 1991 – January 1992	40.9	41.9
HeavenApple Music	#1June 1985	19	April 1985 – August 1985	34.6	35.3
Run To YouApple Music	#6January 1985	19	November 1984 – March 1985	29.8	29.7
Do I Have To Say The Words?Apple Music	#11October 1992	20	August 1992 – December 1992	28.8	28.2
Thought I'd Died And Gone To HeavenApple Music	#13May 1992	20	March 1992 – July 1992	27.2	26.7
Summer Of '69Apple Music	#5August 1985	17	June 1985 – October 1985	26.7	27.9
Heat Of The NightApple Music	#6May 1987	16	March 1987 – July 1987	25.0	25.1
Straight From The HeartApple Music	#10May 1983	19	March 1983 – July 1983	23.1	22.8
Let's Make A Night To RememberApple Music	#24October 1996	23	August 1996 – February 1997	22.9	25.2
SomebodyApple Music	#11April 1985	17	February 1985 – May 1985	20.4	21.2
One Night Love AffairApple Music	#13November 1985	15	September 1985 – December 1985	18.2	18.9
I Finally Found Someone (From "The Mirror Has Two Faces")with Barbra StreisandApple Music	#8December 1996	20	November 1996 – April 1997	15.8	32.4
Cuts Like A KnifeApple Music	#15August 1983	14	June 1983 – September 1983	15.6	16.0
All for Lovewith Rod Stewart, StingApple Music	#1January 1994	22	November 1993 – April 1994	12.6	56.1
This TimeApple Music	#24October 1983	12	September 1983 – November 1983	11.6	11.4
Hearts On FireApple Music	#26August 1987	13	June 1987 – September 1987	10.4	10.8
It's Only Lovewith Tina TurnerApple Music	#15January 1986	14	November 1985 – February 1986	8.7	17.9
Victim Of LoveApple Music	#32October 1987	12	August 1987 – November 1987	8.5	8.5
There Will Never Be Another TonightApple Music	#31February 1992	15	December 1991 – March 1992	8.0	8.8
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is YouApple Music	#52June 1996	12	May 1996 – August 1996	4.6	4.5
Rock Steadywith Bonnie RaittApple Music	#73December 1995	4	November 1995 – December 1995	0.5	0.9
Lonely NightsApple Music	#84March 1982	2	March 1982 – March 1982	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1984 in music →

Bryan Adams's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1984 to November 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.