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MC Lyte portraitMC Lyte

Charting Mar 7, 1992Aug 16, 1997 · 84 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 84 wk, UK Singles Chart 23 wk

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Peak Power
1.68%
week of Mar 15, 1997
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
April 1996 – April 1997
Peak Five Years
65
August 1992 – August 1997
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
84
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.53%
week of Feb 15, 1997
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

6 records · 66 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
Cold Rock A Party#112031.0
Keep On, Keepin' On (From "Sunset Park")feat. Xscape#102016.8
Ruffneck#352013.0
Come Onfeatured credit · with Billy Lawrence#44192.6
Do You Want To/Can't Hangfeatured credit · with Xscape#50161.4
Poor Georgie#8350.9

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At their peak

1996 in music

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

  1. 1Toni Braxton166
  2. 2Celine Dion150
  3. 3Keith Sweat129
  4. 4Los Del Rio121
  5. 5R. Kelly116
  6. 6Alanis Morissette105
  7. 7Jewel97
  8. 8Donna Lewis96
  9. 9No Mercy90
  10. 10Tracy Chapman84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.