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The Escape Club

Charting Aug 20, 1988Nov 9, 1991 · 71 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itBillboard Hot 100 71 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19881991

    First crown Nov 1988

Peak Power
2.08%
week of Dec 3, 1988
Career Power
86
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
50
May 1988 – April 1989
Peak Five Years
86
November 1986 – November 1991
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
71
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.56%
week of Nov 12, 1988
Comebacks
1
Aug 1991

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 · 86 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
Wild, Wild West#12739.2
I'll Be There#82530.5
Shake For The Sheik#28149.4
Call It Poison#44105.5
Walking Through Walls#8161.1

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At their peak

1988 in music

The Escape Club's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1988 to April 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Def Leppard113
  2. 2Poison99
  3. 3Breathe96
  4. 4Bobby Brown95
  5. 5Chicago94
  6. 6George Michael93
  7. 7Guns N' Roses93
  8. 8Debbie Gibson84
  9. 9Steve Winwood83
  10. 10Taylor Dayne81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.