Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Richard Marx

Charting Jun 13, 1987 → Mar 21, 1998 · 283 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 283 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 82 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Michael Cohn Photo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
5 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug 1989) · First crown Jul 1988
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19871998
Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug–Sep 1989) · First crown Aug 1989

Billboard Hot 100 · 283 wk UK Singles Chart · 82 wk Global Music Power · 288 wk

Peak Power: 2.85%; week of Sep 9, 1989
Career Power: 438; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 111; May 1989 – April 1990
Peak Five Years: 321; July 1987 – July 1992
Top-five weeks: 25; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 283; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.72%; week of Aug 12, 1989
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1991 · Mar 1994

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

17 records · 438 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
Now And ForeverApple Music	#7March 1994	27	January 1994 – July 1994	53.2	52.0
Hold On To The NightsApple Music	#1July 1988	21	May 1988 – October 1988	35.6	35.3
Right Here WaitingApple Music	#1August 1989	21	July 1989 – November 1989	35.2	36.3
Endless Summer NightsApple Music	#2March 1988	21	January 1988 – June 1988	34.6	34.4
HazardApple Music	#9April 1992	20	February 1992 – June 1992	32.2	31.8
Should've Known BetterApple Music	#3December 1987	21	September 1987 – February 1988	31.9	32.2
Don't Mean NothingApple Music	#3August 1987	21	June 1987 – October 1987	30.0	30.1
SatisfiedApple Music	#1June 1989	15	May 1989 – August 1989	28.8	29.4
AngeliaApple Music	#4December 1989	17	October 1989 – January 1990	27.9	27.6
Keep Coming BackApple Music	#12December 1991	20	November 1991 – March 1992	27.7	27.4
Take This HeartApple Music	#20August 1992	20	June 1992 – October 1992	23.0	22.9
Children Of The NightApple Music	#13June 1990	15	April 1990 – August 1990	19.3	19.1
The Way She Loves MeApple Music	#20August 1994	19	July 1994 – November 1994	19.1	18.8
Too Late To Say GoodbyeApple Music	#12March 1990	13	January 1990 – April 1990	18.7	18.5
Until I Find You AgainApple Music	#42May 1997	20	April 1997 – August 1997	9.0	8.9
Chains Around My HeartApple Music	#44November 1992	13	October 1992 – January 1993	6.2	6.2
At The Beginningwith Donna LewisApple Music	#45January 1998	20	November 1997 – March 1998	5.5	10.7

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At their peak

1989 in music →

Richard Marx's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1989 to April 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.