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Midnight Oil portraitMidnight Oil

Charting Apr 2, 1988Apr 21, 1990 · 38 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 38 wk, UK Singles Chart 38 wk

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Peak Power
1.11%
week of Jul 16, 1988
Career Power
27
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
October 1987 – October 1988
Peak Five Years
27
May 1985 – April 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.03%
week of Jul 2, 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

3 records · 27 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
Beds Are Burning#172218.4
Blue Sky Mine#47104.6
The Dead Heart#53103.8

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At their peak

1987 in music

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

  1. 1George Michael137
  2. 2Michael Jackson130
  3. 3Debbie Gibson112
  4. 4INXS108
  5. 5Whitney Houston103
  6. 6Richard Marx101
  7. 7Def Leppard93
  8. 8Rick Astley90
  9. 9Tiffany90
  10. 10Belinda Carlisle89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.