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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The 2 Live Crew

Charting Sep 9, 1989Nov 16, 1996 · 74 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 74 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
0.87%
week of Dec 16, 1989
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
24
September 1989 – September 1990
Peak Five Years
29
February 1987 – January 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.51%
week of Nov 18, 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 · 33 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
Me So Horny#263020.7
Banned In The U.S.A.featured credit · with Luke#20164.2
Pop That Coochie#58134.1
Shake A Lil' Somethin'...#72153.6

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At their peak

1989 in music

The 2 Live Crew's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1989 to September 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson154
  2. 2Roxette111
  3. 3New Kids On The Block111
  4. 4Phil Collins106
  5. 5Madonna106
  6. 6Taylor Dayne103
  7. 7Michael Bolton96
  8. 8Aerosmith87
  9. 9Seduction85
  10. 10Milli Vanilli80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.