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Natalie Merchant portraitNatalie Merchant

Charting Aug 5, 1995Oct 26, 1996 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 65 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
2.12%
week of Mar 2, 1996
Career Power
111
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
99
September 1995 – September 1996
Peak Five Years
111
November 1991 – October 1996
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
65
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.60%
week of Oct 28, 1995
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 · 111 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
Carnival#103146.6
Wonder#203843.1
Jealousy#232021.8

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At their peak

1995 in music

Natalie Merchant's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1995 to September 1996. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Mariah Carey161
  2. 2Hootie & The Blowfish118
  3. 3Coolio112
  4. 4Brandy100
  5. 5Natalie Merchant99
  6. 6Monica98
  7. 7The Tony Rich Project98
  8. 8La Bouche92
  9. 9Everything But The Girl92
  10. 10LL Cool J90

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.