Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Guns N' Roses

Charting Jun 25, 1988 → Dec 13, 2008 · 151 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 151 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 140 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Sep 1988) · First crown Sep 1988
UK Singles Chart
1 crown
First crown Jul 1989
Global Music Power
6 crowns
19872023
Longest reign 4 weeks (Aug–Sep 1988) · First crown Aug 1988

Billboard Hot 100 · 151 wk UK Singles Chart · 140 wk Global Music Power · 213 wk

Peak Power: 2.47%; week of Oct 10, 1992
Career Power: 229; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 114; July 1988 – July 1989
Peak Five Years: 223; February 1988 – January 1993
Top-five weeks: 14; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 151; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Sep 17, 1988
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1991

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

13 records · 229 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
November RainApple Music	#3August 1992	20	June 1992 – November 1992	48.3	47.4
Sweet Child O' MineApple Music	#1September 1988	24	June 1988 – December 1988	38.1	38.3
Don't CryApple Music	#10November 1991	20	September 1991 – February 1992	34.9	34.6
Welcome To The JungleApple Music	#7December 1988	17	October 1988 – February 1989	27.2	27.3
PatienceApple Music	#4June 1989	18	April 1989 – August 1989	26.6	26.4
Paradise CityApple Music	#5March 1989	17	January 1989 – May 1989	24.1	24.6
You Could Be MineApple Music	#29August 1991	15	July 1991 – October 1991	11.9	12.2
Live And Let DieApple Music	#33February 1992	16	December 1991 – April 1992	9.0	9.8
Since I Don't Have You	#69March 1994	9	March 1994 – April 1994	2.4	2.3
Sympathy For The Devil ("Interview With The Vampire")Apple Music	#55January 1995	8	December 1994 – February 1995	2.4	2.3
YesterdaysApple Music	#72November 1992	10	November 1992 – January 1993	2.2	2.1
Chinese DemocracyApple Music	#34November 2008	3	November 2008 – December 2008	1.8	1.6
NightrainApple Music	#93August 1989	5	July 1989 – August 1989	0.6	0.7

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At their peak

1988 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.