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Terence Trent D'Arby portraitTerence Trent D'Arby

Also credited as Incredible Eg O'Reilly

Charting Oct 24, 1987Oct 16, 1993 · 61 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 61 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 83 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19871995

    First crown May 1988

Peak Power
2.36%
week of Aug 20, 1988
Career Power
81
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
78
November 1987 – November 1988
Peak Five Years
79
December 1983 – November 1988
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
61
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.56%
week of May 7, 1988
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

5 records · 81 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
Wishing Well#12538.6
Sign Your Name#42130.1
Dance Little Sister#30118.2
If You Let Me Stay#6881.9
Delicate#7481.7

At their peak

1987 in music

Terence Trent D'Arby's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1987 to November 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1George Michael140
  2. 2INXS117
  3. 3Michael Jackson116
  4. 4Debbie Gibson106
  5. 5Whitney Houston106
  6. 6Def Leppard102
  7. 7Richard Marx93
  8. 8Taylor Dayne93
  9. 9Rick Astley92
  10. 10Steve Winwood83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.