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R.L. portraitR.L.

Charting Sep 11, 1999Jan 19, 2002 · 45 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 45 wk

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Peak Power
0.75%
week of Nov 27, 1999
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
April 1999 – March 2000
Peak Five Years
14
February 1997 – January 2002
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
45
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.40%
week of Oct 23, 1999
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 · 14 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
We Can't Be Friendswith Deborah Cox#82012.5
Do U Wanna Roll (Dolittle Theme)with Snoop Dogg, Lil' Kim#84160.8
The Best Man I Can Bewith Ginuwine, Tyrese, Case#77120.5

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At their peak

1999 in music

R.L.'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1999 to March 2000. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston127
  2. 2TLC126
  3. 3Backstreet Boys121
  4. 4Sugar Ray114
  5. 5Christina Aguilera112
  6. 6Ricky Martin102
  7. 7Smash Mouth98
  8. 8Jennifer Lopez96
  9. 970294
  10. 10Destiny's Child82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.