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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

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Charting Oct 19, 1996Feb 1, 1997 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 16 wk, UK Singles Chart 17 wk

Compare with other artists
Peak Power
0.22%
week of Dec 28, 1996
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
February 1996 – February 1997
Peak Five Years
4
February 1992 – February 1997
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.38%
week of Dec 14, 1996
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

1 song · 4 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
I Luv U Baby#66164.1

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At their peak

1996 in music

The Original's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1996 to February 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Celine Dion152
  2. 2Toni Braxton128
  3. 3Los Del Rio120
  4. 4Alanis Morissette118
  5. 5Keith Sweat109
  6. 6LL Cool J104
  7. 7R. Kelly102
  8. 8The Tony Rich Project98
  9. 9Mariah Carey98
  10. 10Tracy Chapman85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.