Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Keith Sweat

Charting Jan 16, 1988 → May 15, 1999 · 264 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 264 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 33 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Christopher Kaufmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19881999
Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct–Nov 1996) · First crown Oct 1996

Billboard Hot 100 · 264 wk UK Singles Chart · 33 wk Global Music Power · 269 wk

Peak Power: 3.42%; week of Dec 14, 1996
Career Power: 288; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 133; June 1996 – June 1997
Peak Five Years: 167; April 1994 – April 1999
Top-five weeks: 27; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 264; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.27%; week of Nov 2, 1996
Comebacks: 2; Aug 1990 · Jul 1996

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

18 records · 288 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
TwistedApple Music	#2August 1996	38	June 1996 – March 1997	80.4	87.3
Nobodyfeat. Athena CageApple Music	#3December 1996	35	October 1996 – May 1997	52.6	79.1
I Want HerApple Music	#5April 1988	20	January 1988 – May 1988	28.7	28.4
I'll Give All My Love To YouApple Music	#7February 1991	20	December 1990 – April 1991	27.6	27.3
Make You SweatApple Music	#14August 1990	21	June 1990 – October 1990	25.5	25.0
Keep It CominApple Music	#17February 1992	20	November 1991 – April 1992	21.7	21.1
Come And Get With Mefeat. Snoop DoggApple Music	#12October 1998	15	October 1998 – January 1999	12.3	17.2
I'm Not ReadyApple Music	#16March 1999	10	March 1999 – May 1999	9.8	9.7
How Do You Like It?Apple Music	#48May 1994	20	March 1994 – August 1994	8.7	8.5
Why Me Baby?Apple Music	#44June 1992	17	April 1992 – August 1992	8.1	7.9
Get Up On Itfeat. Kut KloseApple Music	#62December 1994	16	October 1994 – January 1995	3.5	5.0
Your LoveApple Music	#71July 1991	9	June 1991 – August 1991	2.2	2.2
Come With Mefeat. Ronald IsleyApple Music	#68June 1997	11	June 1997 – August 1997	1.9	2.7
Make It Last Foreverwith Jacci McGheeApple Music	#59August 1988	11	July 1988 – October 1988	1.7	3.4
Am I Dreamingfeatured credit · with Ol Skool · feat. XscapeApple Music	#31February 1998	13	February 1998 – May 1998	1.0	6.7
Something Just Ain't RightApple Music	#79May 1988	5	May 1988 – June 1988	0.8	0.9
When I Give My LoveApple Music	#85August 1994	4	August 1994 – August 1994	0.5	0.6
All Nitefeatured credit · with EntouchApple Music	#71February 1990	7	January 1990 – February 1990	0.5	1.7

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At their peak

1996 in music →

Keith Sweat's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1996 to June 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1Toni Braxton187
2Celine Dion136
3Keith Sweat133
4Jewel121
5R. Kelly115
6Los Del Rio112
7Donna Lewis96
8No Mercy93
9Eric Clapton82
10Az Yet82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.