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Club Nouveau portraitClub Nouveau

Charting Feb 14, 1987Aug 22, 1987 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 28 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 12 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 1987) · First crown Mar 1987

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19871987

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar–Apr 1987) · First crown Mar 1987

Peak Power
1.98%
week of Apr 25, 1987
Career Power
39
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
39
August 1986 – August 1987
Peak Five Years
39
September 1982 – August 1987
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of Mar 28, 1987
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 · 39 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
Lean On Me#11732.4
Why You Treat Me So Bad#39136.9

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At their peak

1986 in music

Club Nouveau's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1986 to August 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna116
  2. 2Huey Lewis & The News114
  3. 3Genesis114
  4. 4Janet Jackson111
  5. 5Bon Jovi101
  6. 6Bruce Hornsby & The Range86
  7. 7Lionel Richie85
  8. 8Cyndi Lauper78
  9. 9Robbie Nevil76
  10. 10Steve Winwood74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.