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The Alarm portraitThe Alarm

Charting Dec 28, 1985Dec 30, 1989 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 37 wk, UK Singles Chart 72 wk

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Peak Power
0.28%
week of Dec 2, 1989
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
January 1989 – December 1989
Peak Five Years
10
January 1985 – December 1989
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.66%
week of Nov 25, 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 · 10 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
Sold Me Down The River#50134.2
Strength#61102.7
Rain In The Summertime#7181.9
Presence Of Love#7761.2

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At their peak

1989 in music

The Alarm's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1989 to December 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1New Kids On The Block143
  2. 2Paula Abdul140
  3. 3Milli Vanilli137
  4. 4Bobby Brown130
  5. 5Bon Jovi109
  6. 6Madonna98
  7. 7Richard Marx90
  8. 8Roxette88
  9. 9Fine Young Cannibals85
  10. 10Karyn White69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.