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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Living In A Box

Charting Jun 20, 1987Nov 7, 1987 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 19 wk, UK Singles Chart 63 wk

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Peak Power
1.02%
week of Sep 5, 1987
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
16
November 1986 – November 1987
Peak Five Years
16
November 1982 – November 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.04%
week of Aug 22, 1987
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 · 16 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
Living In A Box#171514.8
So The Story Goes#8140.7

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At their peak

1986 in music

Living In A Box's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1986 to November 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna126
  2. 2Huey Lewis & The News98
  3. 3Bon Jovi88
  4. 4Genesis87
  5. 5Janet Jackson83
  6. 6U280
  7. 7Bruce Hornsby & The Range78
  8. 8Expose77
  9. 9Robbie Nevil74
  10. 10Whitney Houston71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.