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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Nice & Smooth

Charting May 9, 1992Aug 13, 1994 · 25 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 25 wk

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Peak Power
0.49%
week of Aug 8, 1992
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
September 1991 – September 1992
Peak Five Years
10
August 1989 – August 1994
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.81%
week of Jul 11, 1992
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

2 records · 10 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
Sometimes I Rhyme Slow#44188.5
Old To The New#5972.0

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At their peak

1991 in music

Nice & Smooth's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1991 to September 1992. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Mariah Carey156
  2. 2Color Me Badd126
  3. 3Michael Jackson122
  4. 4Boyz II Men122
  5. 5Prince And The New Power Generation103
  6. 6Bryan Adams98
  7. 7Genesis97
  8. 8Vanessa Williams96
  9. 9Amy Grant96
  10. 10CeCe Peniston94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.