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Charting Sep 6, 1997Jul 6, 2002 · 117 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 117 wk (9 crowns), UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    9 crowns

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr–May 1998) · First crown Apr 1998

  • Global Music Power

    1 crown

    19972002

    First crown May 1998

Peak Power
3.63%
week of Oct 10, 1998
Career Power
223
share-weeks
Crowns
9
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
152
December 1997 – November 1998
Peak Five Years
223
July 1997 – July 2002
Top-five weeks
32
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
117
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.07%
week of Sep 26, 1998
Comebacks
1
Sep 2000

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 · 223 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
Too Close#153123.3
Butta Love#162335.8
Wifey#72133.9
I Still Love You#142024.9
Anythingfeatured credit · with Jaheim#28205.4

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At their peak

1997 in music

Next's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1997 to November 1998. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Usher169
  2. 2Next152
  3. 3Savage Garden137
  4. 4Shania Twain119
  5. 5LeAnn Rimes114
  6. 6Mase92
  7. 7Third Eye Blind92
  8. 8Monica86
  9. 9Madonna83
  10. 10Sarah McLachlan81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.