Artists · Billboard Hot 100

MC Hammer

Charting Apr 28, 1990 → Aug 6, 1994 · 105 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 105 wk (6 crowns), UK Singles Chart 70 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Brian Solis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
6 crowns
Longest reign 6 weeks (Dec 1991 – Jan 1992) · First crown Dec 1991
Global Music Power
7 crowns
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Longest reign 7 weeks (Dec 1991 – Feb 1992) · First crown Dec 1991

Billboard Hot 100 · 105 wk UK Singles Chart · 70 wk Global Music Power · 119 wk

Peak Power: 2.87%; week of Feb 15, 1992
Career Power: 171; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 91; April 1990 – April 1991
Peak Five Years: 171; August 1989 – August 1994
Top-five weeks: 11; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 105; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 5.06%; week of Jan 11, 1992
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

10 records · 171 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
2 Legit 2 QuitApple Music	#5January 1992	20	November 1991 – March 1992	38.2	38.0
Have You Seen HerApple Music	#4September 1990	20	June 1990 – November 1990	30.2	31.0
U Can't Touch ThisApple Music	#8June 1990	17	April 1990 – August 1990	28.9	29.5
PrayApple Music	#2November 1990	18	September 1990 – January 1991	27.2	27.5
Addams GrooveApple Music	#7January 1992	20	December 1991 – April 1992	17.1	24.3
Pumps And A Bump	#26May 1994	20	March 1994 – August 1994	15.4	15.3
It's All GoodApple Music	#46March 1994	19	February 1994 – June 1994	7.2	8.0
Here Comes the HammerApple Music	#54February 1991	14	January 1991 – April 1991	4.3	4.4
Do Not Pass Me ByApple Music	#62March 1992	8	March 1992 – May 1992	1.8	2.1
This Is The Way We RollApple Music	#86May 1992	3	May 1992 – June 1992	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1990 in music →

MC Hammer's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1990 to April 1991. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.