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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Scritti Politti portraitScritti Politti

Charting Sep 7, 1985Aug 27, 1988 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 37 wk, UK Singles Chart 88 wk

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Peak Power
1.54%
week of Jan 18, 1986
Career Power
32
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
March 1985 – March 1986
Peak Five Years
32
September 1983 – August 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.52%
week of Dec 21, 1985
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 · 32 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
Perfect Way#112528.9
Boom! There She Wasfeat. Roger#53112.7
Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)#9140.5

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At their peak

1985 in music

Scritti Politti's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1985 to March 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Phil Collins116
  2. 2Madonna109
  3. 3Tears For Fears105
  4. 4Bryan Adams105
  5. 5Wham!103
  6. 6Bruce Springsteen98
  7. 7Whitney Houston95
  8. 8Survivor90
  9. 9Kool & The Gang89
  10. 10Sting83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.