Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Run-D.M.C.

Charting Jul 26, 1986 → Jul 10, 1993 · 64 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 64 wk, UK Singles Chart 76 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 64 wk UK Singles Chart · 76 wk Global Music Power · 120 wk

Peak Power: 1.68%; week of Oct 11, 1986
Career Power: 61; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 43; May 1986 – May 1987
Peak Five Years: 44; September 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks: 2; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 64; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.19%; week of Sep 27, 1986
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

5 records · 61 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
Walk This WayApple Music	#4September 1986	16	July 1986 – November 1986	26.4	26.2
Down With The KingApple Music	#21May 1993	17	March 1993 – July 1993	17.1	16.7
You Be IllinApple Music	#29December 1986	18	October 1986 – February 1987	13.3	13.3
It's TrickyApple Music	#57April 1987	10	February 1987 – May 1987	3.3	3.3
Mary, MaryApple Music	#75August 1988	6	July 1988 – September 1988	1.2	1.2

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At their peak

1986 in music →

Run-D.M.C.'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.