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Merry Clayton portraitMerry Clayton

Charting Jun 6, 1970May 14, 1988 · 40 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 40 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
0.35%
week of Sep 20, 1975
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
May 1987 – May 1988
Peak Five Years
7
October 1970 – September 1975
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.78%
week of Apr 23, 1988
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

5 records · 13 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
Yes (From The Motion Picture "Dirty Dancing")#45114.6
Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow#4594.3
After All This Time#7171.7
Gimme Shelter#7371.4
Oh No, Not My Baby#7261.3

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At their peak

1987 in music

Merry Clayton's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1987 to May 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston135
  2. 2George Michael116
  3. 3Debbie Gibson106
  4. 4Michael Jackson105
  5. 5Richard Marx96
  6. 6Tiffany93
  7. 7Expose91
  8. 8Heart88
  9. 9Whitesnake81
  10. 10Fleetwood Mac77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.