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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Nu Shooz

Charting Mar 8, 1986Jul 30, 1988 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 55 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    4 crowns

    19861988

    Longest reign 4 weeks (May–Jun 1986) · First crown May 1986

Peak Power
2.02%
week of Jun 28, 1986
Career Power
59
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
50
December 1985 – November 1986
Peak Five Years
59
August 1983 – July 1988
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.33%
week of Jun 14, 1986
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 · 59 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
I Can't Wait#32335.5
Point Of No Return#282214.7
Should I Say Yes?#41168.3

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At their peak

1985 in music

Nu Shooz's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1985 to November 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Billy Ocean98
  2. 2Janet Jackson98
  3. 3Madonna91
  4. 4Miami Sound Machine88
  5. 5Lionel Richie88
  6. 6Mr. Mister80
  7. 7Whitney Houston77
  8. 8John Mellencamp75
  9. 9Robert Palmer75
  10. 10Heart71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.