Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Rick Astley

Charting Dec 19, 1987 → Jan 15, 1994 · 119 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 119 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 83 wk (12 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 1988) · First crown Mar 1988
UK Singles Chart
12 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 1987) · First crown Aug 1987
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19872010
Longest reign 4 weeks (Feb–Mar 1988) · First crown Feb 1988

Billboard Hot 100 · 119 wk UK Singles Chart · 83 wk Global Music Power · 153 wk

Peak Power: 2.60%; week of Jun 25, 1988
Career Power: 167; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 95; February 1988 – February 1989
Peak Five Years: 152; August 1986 – July 1991
Top-five weeks: 9; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 119; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Mar 12, 1988
Comebacks: 1; Apr 1991

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

9 records · 167 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
Never Gonna Give You UpApple Music	#1March 1988	24	December 1987 – May 1988	38.7	38.8
Together ForeverApple Music	#1June 1988	18	April 1988 – August 1988	31.0	31.4
Cry For HelpApple Music	#7April 1991	20	February 1991 – June 1991	28.6	28.2
She Wants To Dance With MeApple Music	#6February 1989	18	December 1988 – April 1989	24.9	24.6
It Would Take A Strong Strong ManApple Music	#10September 1988	16	July 1988 – October 1988	22.0	22.0
HopelesslyApple Music	#28October 1993	20	September 1993 – January 1994	14.3	14.0
Giving Up On LoveApple Music	#38May 1989	10	April 1989 – June 1989	5.8	5.8
Move Right OutApple Music	#81July 1991	5	June 1991 – July 1991	0.9	0.9
Ain't Too Proud To BegApple Music	#89August 1989	3	August 1989 – September 1989	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1988 in music →

Rick Astley's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1988 to February 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.