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Erasure portraitErasure

Charting Jul 30, 1988Jul 12, 1997 · 80 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 80 wk, UK Singles Chart 247 wk (8 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    8 crowns

    19852007

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Jun–Jul 1992) · First crown Jan 1989

Peak Power
1.44%
week of Mar 11, 1989
Career Power
72
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
41
July 1988 – July 1989
Peak Five Years
43
November 1986 – October 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
80
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.43%
week of Oct 29, 1988
Comebacks
1
Jul 1994, after 5 quiet years

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 · 72 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
Always#202327.2
Chains Of Love#122021.6
A Little Respect#141718.9
In My Arms#5582.5
Chorus#83112.0
Stop!#9720.3

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At their peak

1988 in music

Erasure's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1988 to July 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bobby Brown130
  2. 2Guns N' Roses113
  3. 3Bon Jovi110
  4. 4Def Leppard93
  5. 5New Kids On The Block92
  6. 6Chicago91
  7. 7Paula Abdul83
  8. 8Breathe79
  9. 9Poison78
  10. 10Rod Stewart74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.