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Johnny Hates Jazz portraitJohnny Hates Jazz

Charting Mar 19, 1988Sep 24, 1988 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 28 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 49 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19871989

    First crown May 1988

Peak Power
2.04%
week of Jun 18, 1988
Career Power
43
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
43
October 1987 – September 1988
Peak Five Years
43
October 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.44%
week of May 14, 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

2 records · 43 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
Shattered Dreams#21933.9
I Don't Want To Be A Hero#31129.3

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At their peak

1987 in music

Johnny Hates Jazz's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1987 to September 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson135
  2. 2George Michael135
  3. 3Debbie Gibson111
  4. 4Whitney Houston106
  5. 5INXS104
  6. 6Richard Marx103
  7. 7Tiffany94
  8. 8Belinda Carlisle91
  9. 9Rick Astley87
  10. 10Def Leppard86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.