Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Tom Petty

Charting Sep 23, 1978 → Jul 22, 2006 · 88 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 88 wk, UK Singles Chart 37 wk

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Photo: Ирина Лепнёва, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 88 wk UK Singles Chart · 37 wk Global Music Power · 104 wk

Peak Power: 1.91%; week of Feb 10, 1990
Career Power: 102; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 64; April 1989 – April 1990
Peak Five Years: 64; May 1985 – April 1990
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 88; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.93%; week of Jan 27, 1990
Comebacks: 1; Feb 1995, after 5 quiet years

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 · 102 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
You Don't Know How It FeelsApple Music	#13February 1995	22	December 1994 – April 1995	33.6	32.6
Free FallinApple Music	#7January 1990	21	November 1989 – March 1990	29.0	28.6
I Won't Back DownApple Music	#12July 1989	15	April 1989 – August 1989	19.7	19.4
Runnin' Down A DreamApple Music	#23September 1989	14	July 1989 – October 1989	12.2	12.0
A Face In The CrowdApple Music	#46March 1990	8	March 1990 – April 1990	3.2	3.3
It's Good To Be KingApple Music	#68June 1995	8	April 1995 – June 1995	2.0	1.9
Listen To Her HeartApple Music	#59October 1978	6	September 1978 – October 1978	1.9	1.8
Saving Grace	#100July 2006	1	July 2006	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1989 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.