Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Starship

Charting Sep 7, 1985 → May 18, 1991 · 130 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 130 wk (7 crowns), UK Singles Chart 48 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
7 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov 1985) · First crown Nov 1985
UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (May 1987) · First crown May 1987
Global Music Power
4 crowns
19852014
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov 1985) · First crown Nov 1985

Billboard Hot 100 · 130 wk UK Singles Chart · 48 wk Global Music Power · 135 wk

Peak Power: 2.65%; week of Mar 29, 1986
Career Power: 175; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 86; August 1985 – August 1986
Peak Five Years: 174; January 1985 – January 1990
Top-five weeks: 16; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 130; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Nov 23, 1985
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1989

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

11 records · 175 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
We Built This CityApple Music	#1November 1985	24	September 1985 – February 1986	39.7	39.8
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us NowApple Music	#1April 1987	22	January 1987 – June 1987	39.4	39.2
SaraApple Music	#1March 1986	20	December 1985 – May 1986	34.2	34.8
It's Not Over ('til It's Over)Apple Music	#9August 1987	16	June 1987 – October 1987	20.6	20.5
It's Not EnoughApple Music	#12October 1989	16	August 1989 – November 1989	19.9	19.5
Tomorrow Doesn't Matter TonightApple Music	#26May 1986	13	April 1986 – June 1986	10.5	10.6
Beat PatrolApple Music	#46November 1987	10	September 1987 – November 1987	4.6	4.6
Wild Again (From "Cocktail")Apple Music	#73January 1989	8	December 1988 – February 1989	1.8	1.8
Before I GoApple Music	#68July 1986	7	July 1986 – August 1986	1.8	1.8
I Didn't Mean To Stay All NightApple Music	#75December 1989	8	November 1989 – January 1990	1.5	1.5
Good HeartApple Music	#81May 1991	4	April 1991 – May 1991	0.7	0.7

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At their peak

1985 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.