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Tracy Chapman portraitTracy Chapman

Charting Jun 4, 1988Feb 17, 2024 · 77 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 77 wk, UK Singles Chart 60 wk

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Peak Power
2.68%
week of Aug 10, 1996
Career Power
121
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
85
January 1996 – December 1996
Peak Five Years
85
January 1992 – December 1996
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
77
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.34%
week of Jul 27, 1996
Comebacks
1
May 1996, after 7 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

5 records · 121 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
Give Me One Reason#33984.8
Fast Car#62229.2
Baby Can I Hold You#48125.8
Talkin' Bout A Revolution#7540.6
Crossroads#9040.6

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At their peak

1996 in music

Tracy Chapman's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1996 to December 1996. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Celine Dion139
  2. 2Mariah Carey116
  3. 3Alanis Morissette113
  4. 4Los Del Rio111
  5. 5LL Cool J106
  6. 6The Tony Rich Project106
  7. 7Toni Braxton106
  8. 8La Bouche94
  9. 9R. Kelly93
  10. 10Keith Sweat93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.