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The Smithereens portraitThe Smithereens

Charting May 21, 1988May 9, 1992 · 40 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 40 wk, UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Apr 18, 1992
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
May 1989 – May 1990
Peak Five Years
19
May 1987 – May 1992
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.03%
week of Apr 4, 1992
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 · 19 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
A Girl Like You#38209.0
Too Much Passion#37148.8
Only A Memory#9240.5
Blues Before And After#9420.3

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At their peak

1989 in music

The Smithereens's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1989 to May 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Milli Vanilli128
  2. 2New Kids On The Block116
  3. 3Janet Jackson113
  4. 4Richard Marx111
  5. 5Paula Abdul108
  6. 6Madonna108
  7. 7Roxette95
  8. 8Gloria Estefan82
  9. 9Bobby Brown81
  10. 10Michael Bolton77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.