Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Bangles

Charting Jan 25, 1986 → Jul 22, 1989 · 127 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 127 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 101 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
5 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Dec 1986 – Jan 1987) · First crown Dec 1986
UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr 1989) · First crown Apr 1989
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19852003
Longest reign 4 weeks (Mar–Apr 1989) · First crown Dec 1986

Billboard Hot 100 · 127 wk UK Singles Chart · 101 wk Global Music Power · 142 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.46%; week of Apr 22, 1989
Career Power: 211; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 83; February 1986 – February 1987
Peak Five Years: 211; August 1984 – July 1989
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 127; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.57%; week of Jan 10, 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

8 records · 211 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
Walk Like An EgyptianApple Music	#1December 1986	23	September 1986 – February 1987	42.6	42.2
Hazy Shade Of WinterApple Music	#2February 1988	21	November 1987 – April 1988	34.7	34.2
Eternal FlameApple Music	#1April 1989	19	February 1989 – June 1989	32.7	32.9
Manic MondayApple Music	#2April 1986	20	January 1986 – June 1986	31.9	31.7
In Your RoomApple Music	#5January 1989	20	October 1988 – February 1989	28.9	28.8
Walking Down Your StreetApple Music	#11April 1987	16	February 1987 – May 1987	20.6	20.6
If She Knew What She WantsApple Music	#29July 1986	14	May 1986 – August 1986	10.2	10.5
Be With YouApple Music	#30June 1989	12	May 1989 – July 1989	9.1	9.3

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At their peak

1986 in music →

The Bangles's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1986 to February 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.