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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

David Foster

Charting Aug 24, 1985Mar 12, 1988 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 33 wk

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Peak Power
1.22%
week of Nov 30, 1985
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
August 1985 – August 1986
Peak Five Years
22
March 1983 – March 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.20%
week of Nov 16, 1985
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

3 records · 22 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
Love Theme From St. Elmo's Fire (Instrumental)#152221.2
The Best Of Mewith Olivia Newton-John#8080.7
Winter Games#8530.5

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At their peak

1985 in music

David Foster's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1985 to August 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston119
  2. 2Heart104
  3. 3John Mellencamp103
  4. 4Mr. Mister98
  5. 5Starship86
  6. 6Dire Straits83
  7. 7Billy Ocean81
  8. 8Phil Collins77
  9. 9Prince And The Revolution74
  10. 10Madonna72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.