Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Maxi Priest

Charting Oct 29, 1988 → Nov 9, 1996 · 100 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 100 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 108 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
19861996
First crown Oct 1990

Billboard Hot 100 · 100 wk UK Singles Chart · 108 wk Global Music Power · 182 wk

Peak Power: 2.18%; week of Nov 3, 1990
Career Power: 95; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 47; February 1990 – February 1991
Peak Five Years: 81; January 1988 – December 1992
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 100; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.58%; week of Oct 6, 1990
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

7 records · 95 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
Close To YouApple Music	#1October 1990	30	June 1990 – January 1991	44.3	43.7
Set The Night To Musicwith Roberta FlackApple Music	#6November 1991	20	September 1991 – February 1992	15.9	31.2
Wild WorldApple Music	#25January 1989	18	October 1988 – February 1989	14.2	14.0
That Girlfeat. ShaggyApple Music	#20August 1996	20	June 1996 – November 1996	13.8	19.4
Just A Little Bit LongerApple Music	#62February 1991	11	December 1990 – February 1991	2.8	3.2
Groovin' In The MidnightApple Music	#63November 1992	8	October 1992 – December 1992	2.1	2.1
Housecallfeatured credit · with Shabba RanksApple Music	#37December 1991	15	October 1991 – February 1992	1.7	8.6

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At their peak

1990 in music →

Maxi Priest's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1990 to February 1991. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.