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Living Colour portraitLiving Colour

Charting Mar 11, 1989Nov 18, 1989 · 33 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 33 wk, UK Singles Chart 38 wk

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Peak Power
1.21%
week of May 27, 1989
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
November 1988 – November 1989
Peak Five Years
28
December 1984 – November 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.35%
week of May 13, 1989
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

3 records · 28 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
Cult Of Personality#131518.4
Glamour Boys#31138.4
Open Letter (To A Landlord)#8250.9

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At their peak

1988 in music

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

  1. 1Bobby Brown145
  2. 2New Kids On The Block130
  3. 3Paula Abdul128
  4. 4Milli Vanilli118
  5. 5Bon Jovi111
  6. 6Madonna90
  7. 7Fine Young Cannibals84
  8. 8Roxette80
  9. 9Karyn White78
  10. 10Richard Marx76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.