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Tesla portraitTesla

Charting May 16, 1987May 23, 1992 · 66 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 66 wk, UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Peak Power
1.65%
week of Feb 3, 1990
Career Power
67
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
37
June 1989 – May 1990
Peak Five Years
66
June 1987 – May 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
66
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.79%
week of Apr 6, 1991
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

5 records · 67 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
Love Song#102733.2
Signs#82228.9
The Way It Is#55123.3
What You Give#8661.0
Little Suzi#9130.4

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At their peak

1989 in music

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

  1. 1Milli Vanilli124
  2. 2Janet Jackson119
  3. 3New Kids On The Block112
  4. 4Madonna110
  5. 5Richard Marx110
  6. 6Paula Abdul101
  7. 7Roxette99
  8. 8Gloria Estefan82
  9. 9Michael Bolton82
  10. 10Expose78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.