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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Tru

Charting Feb 8, 1997May 17, 1997 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.14%
week of Apr 26, 1997
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
May 1996 – May 1997
Peak Five Years
3
May 1992 – May 1997
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.22%
week of Mar 1, 1997
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 · 3 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 Always Feel Like (Somebody's Watching Me)feat. Ice Cream Man (Master P)#71152.6

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At their peak

1996 in music

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

  1. 1Toni Braxton182
  2. 2Celine Dion145
  3. 3Keith Sweat132
  4. 4Los Del Rio119
  5. 5R. Kelly115
  6. 6Jewel113
  7. 7Donna Lewis96
  8. 8No Mercy92
  9. 9Alanis Morissette89
  10. 10Eric Clapton82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.