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Bryan Ferry portraitBryan Ferry

Charting Dec 11, 1976May 21, 1988 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 17 wk, UK Singles Chart 140 wk

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Peak Power
0.59%
week of May 7, 1988
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
May 1987 – May 1988
Peak Five Years
8
June 1983 – May 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.26%
week of Apr 30, 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

2 records · 9 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
Kiss And Tell (From "Bright Lights, Big City")#31138.3
Heart On My Sleeve#8640.7

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At their peak

1987 in music

Bryan Ferry's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1987 to May 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston136
  2. 2George Michael119
  3. 3Debbie Gibson108
  4. 4Michael Jackson107
  5. 5Richard Marx96
  6. 6Tiffany94
  7. 7Expose90
  8. 8Heart87
  9. 9Whitesnake81
  10. 10INXS75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.