Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Meat Loaf

Charting Mar 18, 1978 → Mar 9, 1996 · 113 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 113 wk, UK Singles Chart 168 wk (14 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Ronden Talent Management, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
14 crowns
Longest reign 8 weeks (Oct–Nov 1993) · First crown Oct 1993
Global Music Power
2 crowns
19782022
First crown Oct 1993

Billboard Hot 100 · 113 wk UK Singles Chart · 168 wk Global Music Power · 212 wk

Peak Power: 2.70%; week of Jan 8, 1994
Career Power: 155; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 89; July 1993 – July 1994
Peak Five Years: 114; March 1991 – March 1996
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 113; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.64%; week of Nov 27, 1993
Comebacks: 2; Oct 1993, after 15 quiet years · Nov 1995

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

9 records · 155 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
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)Apple Music	#1November 1993	22	September 1993 – February 1994	55.5	54.5
Two Out Of Three Ain't BadApple Music	#11July 1978	23	March 1978 – August 1978	28.5	28.3
Rock And Roll Dreams Come ThroughApple Music	#13March 1994	20	January 1994 – June 1994	26.0	25.7
I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)Apple Music	#13November 1995	20	October 1995 – March 1996	24.4	23.9
Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than...	#38May 1994	11	May 1994 – July 1994	7.0	6.9
You Took The Words Right Out Of My MouthApple Music	#39January 1979	13	November 1978 – February 1979	6.7	6.7
Paradise By The Dashboard LightApple Music	#39September 1978	10	August 1978 – October 1978	6.0	6.0
Not A Dry Eye In The HouseApple Music	#82March 1996	4	February 1996 – March 1996	0.6	0.7
I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of UsApple Music	#84September 1981	3	September 1981 – October 1981	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1993 in music →

Meat Loaf's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1993 to July 1994. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.