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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Swing Out Sister portraitSwing Out Sister

Charting Aug 15, 1987Nov 28, 1992 · 49 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 49 wk, UK Singles Chart 55 wk

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Peak Power
1.77%
week of Nov 28, 1987
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
38
April 1987 – March 1988
Peak Five Years
39
July 1984 – June 1989
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.99%
week of Nov 21, 1987
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 · 45 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
Breakout#62329.4
Twilight World#31159.0
Am I The Same Girl#45125.8
Waiting Game#8640.6

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At their peak

1987 in music

Swing Out Sister's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1987 to March 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston115
  2. 2George Michael112
  3. 3Expose104
  4. 4Debbie Gibson91
  5. 5U290
  6. 6Fleetwood Mac88
  7. 7Heart88
  8. 8Michael Jackson87
  9. 9Madonna85
  10. 10Richard Marx83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.