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Gary Barlow portraitGary Barlow

Charting Oct 18, 1997Feb 28, 1998 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 20 wk, UK Singles Chart 102 wk (2 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    2 crowns

    19962014

    First crown Jul 1996

Peak Power
0.49%
week of Jan 31, 1998
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
March 1997 – February 1998
Peak Five Years
11
March 1993 – February 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.81%
week of Dec 13, 1997
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 · 11 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
So Help Me Girl#442010.6

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At their peak

1997 in music

Gary Barlow's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1997 to February 1998. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Spice Girls157
  2. 2Jewel123
  3. 3LeAnn Rimes116
  4. 4Savage Garden105
  5. 5Usher99
  6. 6Third Eye Blind98
  7. 7The Notorious B.I.G.95
  8. 8Robyn92
  9. 9Dru Hill90
  10. 10Backstreet Boys86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.