Artists · Billboard Hot 100

New Kids On The Block

Also credited as NKOTB

Charting Jun 25, 1988 → Aug 23, 2008 · 147 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 147 wk (11 crowns), UK Singles Chart 86 wk (9 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Year: 1989
1990

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
11 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Oct–Nov 1989) · First crown Sep 1989
UK Singles Chart
9 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Dec 1989 – Jan 1990) · First crown Nov 1989
Global Music Power
9 crowns
19882008
Longest reign 4 weeks (Oct–Nov 1989) · First crown Oct 1989

Billboard Hot 100 · 147 wk UK Singles Chart · 86 wk Global Music Power · 162 wk

Peak Power: 3.81%; week of Nov 18, 1989
Career Power: 259; share-weeks
Crowns: 11; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 148; January 1989 – January 1990
Peak Five Years: 248; May 1987 – May 1992
Top-five weeks: 27; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 147; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 5.23%; week of Nov 11, 1989
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

13 records · 259 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I'll Be Loving You (Forever)Apple Music	#1June 1989	21	April 1989 – August 1989	35.0	35.5
You Got It (The Right Stuff)Apple Music	#3March 1989	26	November 1988 – May 1989	32.7	33.1
Step By StepApple Music	#1June 1990	15	May 1990 – September 1990	31.6	31.9
Hangin' ToughApple Music	#1September 1989	17	July 1989 – November 1989	29.0	30.2
Please Don't Go GirlApple Music	#10October 1988	28	June 1988 – December 1988	26.2	26.2
Cover GirlApple Music	#2November 1989	18	September 1989 – January 1990	22.4	25.3
This One's For The ChildrenApple Music	#7January 1990	16	November 1989 – February 1990	21.9	22.6
TonightApple Music	#7September 1990	12	August 1990 – October 1990	17.9	18.1
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)Apple Music	#8November 1989	19	September 1989 – January 1990	15.3	21.5
If You Go AwayApple Music	#16March 1992	13	February 1992 – May 1992	13.6	13.3
SummertimeApple Music	#36July 2008	13	May 2008 – August 2008	8.7	8.1
Let's Try It AgainApple Music	#53November 1990	8	October 1990 – November 1990	2.8	2.8
Dirty Dawg	#66January 1994	6	January 1994 – February 1994	1.8	1.7

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At their peak

1989 in music →

New Kids On The Block's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1989 to January 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1New Kids On The Block148
2Milli Vanilli142
3Paula Abdul138
4Bobby Brown120
5Bon Jovi105
6Madonna103
7Richard Marx92
8Roxette92
9Fine Young Cannibals85
10Cher72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.