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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Charting May 21, 1988Jan 15, 1994 · 104 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 104 wk, UK Singles Chart 41 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

  • UK Singles Chart

    Artist of the Week
    3 crownsLongest reign 3 weeks: Sep 19, 1993 Oct 3, 1993First crown: Sep 19, 1993
Peak Power
1.94%
week of Aug 31, 1991
Career Power
116
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
February 1991 – February 1992
Peak Five Years
91
February 1987 – February 1992
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
104
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.22%
week of Aug 10, 1991
Comebacks
2
July 1991, October 1993
Comebacks (thresholds from config/scoring.json)
KindTrough beganReturnedTrough weeksLongest absencePrior peakReturn share
After declineFeb 11, 1989Jul 27, 1991128751.76%1.10%
After declineMar 7, 1992Oct 2, 199382741.94%1.06%

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

8 records · 116 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
Summertime#41832.7
Boom! Shake The Room#132023.7
Parents Just Don't Understand#121921.6
A Nightmare On My Street#151615.7
Ring My Bell#201914.6
Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble#57124.0
I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson#5892.5
I'm Looking For The One (To Be With Me)#7971.1

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At their peak

1991 in music

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1991 to February 1992. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Mariah Carey140
  2. 2Color Me Badd126
  3. 3Amy Grant119
  4. 4Paula Abdul112
  5. 5Michael Bolton104
  6. 6Boyz II Men97
  7. 7Bryan Adams93
  8. 8Roxette80
  9. 9Extreme79
  10. 10Rod Stewart76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.