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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Pretty Poison

Charting Sep 26, 1987Jun 18, 1988 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 35 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
1.74%
week of Jan 16, 1988
Career Power
39
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
39
June 1987 – June 1988
Peak Five Years
39
July 1983 – June 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
35
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.80%
week of Dec 19, 1987
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 · 39 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
Catch Me (I'm Falling) (From The Film "Hiding Out")#82331.3
Nightime#36127.7

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At their peak

1987 in music

Pretty Poison's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1987 to June 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1George Michael130
  2. 2Whitney Houston127
  3. 3Michael Jackson117
  4. 4Debbie Gibson117
  5. 5Richard Marx100
  6. 6Tiffany94
  7. 7Belinda Carlisle84
  8. 8Expose83
  9. 9The Jets81
  10. 10INXS81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.