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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Robert Cray Band

Charting Feb 7, 1987Oct 29, 1988 · 26 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 26 wk, UK Singles Chart 5 wk

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Peak Power
0.80%
week of Apr 25, 1987
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
June 1986 – June 1987
Peak Five Years
14
November 1983 – October 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
26
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.71%
week of Apr 18, 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

3 records · 14 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
Smoking Gun#221411.6
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark#7461.2
Right Next Door (Because Of Me)#8061.1

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At their peak

1986 in music

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

  1. 1Genesis128
  2. 2Madonna128
  3. 3Janet Jackson121
  4. 4Huey Lewis & The News112
  5. 5Lionel Richie97
  6. 6Bon Jovi94
  7. 7Steve Winwood77
  8. 8Cyndi Lauper77
  9. 9Bruce Hornsby & The Range76
  10. 10Glass Tiger70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.