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Charting Jun 4, 1994 → Nov 15, 1997 · 104 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 104 wk, UK Singles Chart 76 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    1 crown

    First crown Jan 1996

  • Global Music Power

    1 crown

    19942022

    First crown Jan 1996

Billboard Hot 100 · 104 wkUK Singles Chart · 76 wkGlobal Music Power · 129 wk
Peak Power
2.69%
week of May 18, 1996
Career Power
192
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
118
August 1995 – August 1996
Peak Five Years
192
November 1992 – November 1997
Top-five weeks
18
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
104
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.46%
week of Apr 27, 1996
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

6 records · 192 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
Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds")feat. L.V.#13864.5
Fantastic Voyage#32552.8
1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)#52136.9
C U When U Get There (From "Nothing To Lose")feat. 40 Thevz#122018.5
It's All The Way Live (Now) (From "Eddie")#291812.1
Too Hot#24157.2

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At their peak

1995 in music →

Coolio's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1995 to August 1996. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Mariah Carey155
  2. 2Hootie & The Blowfish128
  3. 3Coolio118
  4. 4Brandy103
  5. 5Monica102
  6. 6Natalie Merchant96
  7. 7Everything But The Girl91
  8. 8The Tony Rich Project90
  9. 9TLC88
  10. 10La Bouche86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.