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Information Society portraitInformation Society

Charting Jul 16, 1988Jan 19, 1991 · 67 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 67 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
1.87%
week of Nov 12, 1988
Career Power
69
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
57
May 1988 – May 1989
Peak Five Years
69
February 1986 – January 1991
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
67
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.31%
week of Oct 22, 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 · 69 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
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)#32532.6
Walking Away#91923.3
Think#281610.4
Lay All Your Love On Me#8381.4
Repetition#7661.2

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At their peak

1988 in music

Information Society's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1988 to May 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Def Leppard114
  2. 2Poison99
  3. 3Bobby Brown97
  4. 4Breathe95
  5. 5Guns N' Roses95
  6. 6Chicago94
  7. 7George Michael92
  8. 8Debbie Gibson85
  9. 9Bon Jovi84
  10. 10Steve Winwood84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.