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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Shakespears Sister

Charting Jul 4, 1992Feb 13, 1993 · 32 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 32 wk, UK Singles Chart 59 wk (8 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Year

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    8 crowns

    19892013

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Feb–Apr 1992) · First crown Feb 1992

Peak Power
1.95%
week of Oct 10, 1992
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
40
February 1992 – February 1993
Peak Five Years
40
February 1988 – February 1993
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
32
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.22%
week of Sep 19, 1992
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

2 records · 40 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
Stay#42035.3
I Don't Care#55124.7

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At their peak

1992 in music

Shakespears Sister's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1992 to February 1993. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1TLC148
  2. 2En Vogue135
  3. 3Boyz II Men135
  4. 4Jon Secada96
  5. 5Genesis92
  6. 6Arrested Development89
  7. 7Eric Clapton89
  8. 8Madonna88
  9. 9Bobby Brown87
  10. 10Michael Jackson84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.