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Fairground Attraction

Charting Dec 17, 1988Jan 21, 1989 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 6 wk, UK Singles Chart 32 wk (2 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    2 crowns

    19881990

    Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1988) · First crown May 1988

Peak Power
0.09%
week of Jan 21, 1989
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
January 1988 – January 1989
Peak Five Years
1
February 1984 – January 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.23%
week of Jan 14, 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

1 song · 1 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
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At their peak

1988 in music

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

  1. 1George Michael122
  2. 2Def Leppard110
  3. 3Michael Jackson107
  4. 4INXS101
  5. 5Taylor Dayne94
  6. 6Rick Astley94
  7. 7Whitney Houston85
  8. 8Debbie Gibson78
  9. 9Terence Trent D'Arby76
  10. 10Steve Winwood76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.