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Charting Aug 8, 1970Oct 31, 1987 · 43 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 43 wk

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Peak Power
1.38%
week of Oct 10, 1987
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
November 1986 – October 1987
Peak Five Years
21
November 1982 – October 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.71%
week of Sep 26, 1987
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

6 records · 28 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
Touch Of Grey#91520.8
Truckin#6482.2
Uncle John's Band#6971.7
Alabama Getaway#6861.5
The Music Never Stopped#8150.9
Sugar Magnolia#9120.3

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At their peak

1986 in music

Grateful Dead's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1986 to October 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna126
  2. 2Huey Lewis & The News101
  3. 3Bon Jovi91
  4. 4Genesis89
  5. 5Janet Jackson86
  6. 6Bruce Hornsby & The Range80
  7. 7U278
  8. 8Robbie Nevil75
  9. 9Expose75
  10. 10Whitney Houston70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.