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Charting Dec 5, 1998Nov 13, 1999 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 28 wk, UK Singles Chart 5 wk

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Peak Power
1.04%
week of Oct 9, 1999
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
November 1998 – November 1999
Peak Five Years
21
November 1994 – November 1999
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.84%
week of Sep 4, 1999
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

2 records · 21 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
Out Of My Head#202019.7
Fire Escape#8681.3

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At their peak

1998 in music

Fastball's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1998 to November 1999. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1TLC116
  2. 2Goo Goo Dolls115
  3. 3Backstreet Boys115
  4. 4Britney Spears109
  5. 5Sugar Ray108
  6. 6Whitney Houston106
  7. 798 Degrees99
  8. 8Shania Twain90
  9. 9Ricky Martin87
  10. 10Sarah McLachlan86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.