Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Debbie Gibson

Charting May 9, 1987 → Mar 6, 1993 · 135 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 135 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 73 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
4 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar 1989) · First crown Jun 1988
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19871993
Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar–Apr 1988) · First crown Mar 1988

Billboard Hot 100 · 135 wk UK Singles Chart · 73 wk Global Music Power · 144 wk

Peak Power: 2.68%; week of Jul 9, 1988
Career Power: 229; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 124; July 1987 – July 1988
Peak Five Years: 228; February 1986 – February 1991
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 135; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Mar 18, 1989
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

11 records · 229 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Only In My DreamsApple Music	#4September 1987	28	May 1987 – November 1987	37.3	37.5
Shake Your LoveApple Music	#4December 1987	22	October 1987 – February 1988	35.9	36.4
Lost In Your EyesApple Music	#1March 1989	19	January 1989 – May 1989	34.7	35.2
Foolish BeatApple Music	#1June 1988	20	April 1988 – September 1988	33.3	33.6
Out Of The BlueApple Music	#3April 1988	17	January 1988 – May 1988	30.3	30.4
Electric YouthApple Music	#11May 1989	13	April 1989 – June 1989	17.5	18.3
No More RhymeApple Music	#17August 1989	14	June 1989 – September 1989	14.9	14.6
Staying TogetherApple Music	#22September 1988	12	August 1988 – October 1988	11.4	11.5
Anything Is PossibleApple Music	#26January 1991	12	November 1990 – February 1991	11.1	10.9
We Could Be TogetherApple Music	#71September 1989	6	September 1989 – October 1989	1.5	1.5
Losin' MyselfApple Music	#86February 1993	5	February 1993 – March 1993	0.8	0.8

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At their peak

1987 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.