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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Paul Shaffer

Charting Aug 12, 1989Sep 30, 1989 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.11%
week of Sep 30, 1989
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
October 1988 – September 1989
Peak Five Years
1
October 1984 – September 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.22%
week of Sep 9, 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

1 song · 1 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
When The Radio Is On#8181.4

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At their peak

1988 in music

Paul Shaffer's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bobby Brown146
  2. 2Bon Jovi122
  3. 3Paula Abdul110
  4. 4New Kids On The Block108
  5. 5Milli Vanilli93
  6. 6Guns N' Roses85
  7. 7Karyn White80
  8. 8Fine Young Cannibals78
  9. 9Madonna76
  10. 10The Bangles71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.