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Charting Jan 28, 1984Feb 19, 1994 · 151 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 151 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 347 wk (7 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    First crown Oct 1988

  • UK Singles Chart

    7 crowns

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug–Sep 1983) · First crown Aug 1983

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19802013

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 1993) · First crown Jul 1993

Peak Power
2.89%
week of Oct 9, 1993
Career Power
196
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
76
February 1993 – February 1994
Peak Five Years
142
March 1989 – February 1994
Top-five weeks
16
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
151
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Jul 31, 1993
Comebacks
2
Dec 1990 · Jul 1993

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

7 records · 196 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
Can't Help Falling In Love (From "Sliver")#12968.4
Red Red Wine#14043.8
The Way You Do The Things You Do#62535.6
Here I Am (Come And Take Me)#72529.5
I Got You Babe#28149.5
Higher Ground#45207.9
Groovin#9060.8

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At their peak

1993 in music

UB40's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1993 to February 1994. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson164
  2. 2SWV149
  3. 3Mariah Carey116
  4. 4Tag Team106
  5. 5Dr. Dre99
  6. 6Whitney Houston93
  7. 7Toni Braxton88
  8. 8Shai86
  9. 9Rod Stewart81
  10. 10Silk77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.