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Soul II Soul portraitSoul II Soul

Charting Jun 24, 1989Jul 28, 1990 · 57 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 57 wk, UK Singles Chart 95 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    3 crowns

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1989) · First crown Jun 1989

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19881997

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1989) · First crown Dec 1989

Peak Power
2.29%
week of Jan 6, 1990
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
62
June 1989 – June 1990
Peak Five Years
63
August 1985 – July 1990
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.21%
week of Dec 16, 1989
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

4 records · 63 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
Back To Life#42842.5
Keep On Movinfeat. Caron Wheeler#112016.5
Get A Life#54113.5
A Dreams A Dream#8550.8

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At their peak

1989 in music

Soul II Soul's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1989 to June 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson128
  2. 2Milli Vanilli116
  3. 3Madonna115
  4. 4New Kids On The Block110
  5. 5Richard Marx107
  6. 6Roxette106
  7. 7Paula Abdul94
  8. 8Michael Bolton86
  9. 9Gloria Estefan82
  10. 10Phil Collins80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.