Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Vanessa Williams

Charting Jul 23, 1988 → Oct 12, 1996 · 199 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 199 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 31 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Vanessa_Williams.jpg : motfemme derivative work: Tabercil ( talk ), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
5 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Mar–Apr 1992) · First crown Mar 1992
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19881996
Longest reign 5 weeks (Apr–May 1992) · First crown Apr 1992

Billboard Hot 100 · 199 wk UK Singles Chart · 31 wk Global Music Power · 202 wk

Peak Power: 2.82%; week of May 30, 1992
Career Power: 239; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 97; August 1991 – August 1992
Peak Five Years: 206; August 1991 – July 1996
Top-five weeks: 11; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 199; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.60%; week of Mar 21, 1992
Comebacks: 2; Nov 1991 · Jan 1995

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

13 records · 239 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
Save The Best For LastApple Music	#1March 1992	27	February 1992 – August 1992	59.3	60.1
Colors Of The Wind (From "Pocahontas")Apple Music	#4August 1995	23	June 1995 – November 1995	44.0	43.4
The Sweetest DaysApple Music	#18January 1995	23	November 1994 – April 1995	30.4	29.5
DreaminApple Music	#8April 1989	20	January 1989 – May 1989	25.5	25.2
Love Is (From "Beverly Hills, 90210")with Brian McKnightApple Music	#3May 1993	28	January 1993 – July 1993	25.3	49.2
Running Back To YouApple Music	#18October 1991	21	August 1991 – December 1991	22.3	22.0
Just For TonightApple Music	#26July 1992	19	May 1992 – September 1992	15.0	15.9
The Right StuffApple Music	#44August 1988	10	July 1988 – September 1988	4.5	4.4
Work To DoApple Music	#52November 1992	11	September 1992 – December 1992	4.3	4.2
Where Do We Go From Here (From "Eraser")Apple Music	#71July 1996	14	July 1996 – October 1996	3.2	3.1
The Comfort ZoneApple Music	#62January 1992	12	December 1991 – February 1992	2.8	3.2
The Way That You LoveApple Music	#67June 1995	7	May 1995 – June 1995	1.8	1.8
Darlin' IApple Music	#88June 1989	4	June 1989 – June 1989	0.6	0.6

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At their peak

1991 in music →

Vanessa Williams's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1991 to August 1992. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.