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Cutting Crew portraitCutting Crew

Charting Mar 7, 1987Jun 10, 1989 · 50 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 50 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 44 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    19861989

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

Peak Power
1.95%
week of May 30, 1987
Career Power
65
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
64
January 1987 – January 1988
Peak Five Years
65
June 1984 – June 1989
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of May 9, 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

4 records · 65 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
(I Just) Died In Your Arms#11932.6
I've Been In Love Before#92124.9
One For The Mockingbird#38116.4
(Between A) Rock And A Hard Place#7751.1

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At their peak

1987 in music

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

  1. 1Madonna104
  2. 2Whitney Houston103
  3. 3Expose98
  4. 4U290
  5. 5George Michael88
  6. 6Heart81
  7. 7Fleetwood Mac78
  8. 8Prince76
  9. 9Steve Winwood74
  10. 10Whitesnake73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.