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Charting Sep 8, 1984May 31, 1986 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 14 wk

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Peak Power
0.18%
week of May 24, 1986
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
June 1985 – May 1986
Peak Five Years
4
June 1981 – May 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.53%
week of May 17, 1986
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

2 records · 4 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
Under The Influence#5672.3
Pretty Mess#7571.5

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At their peak

1985 in music

Vanity's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1985 to May 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston129
  2. 2Phil Collins102
  3. 3Heart101
  4. 4John Mellencamp93
  5. 5Tears For Fears92
  6. 6Mr. Mister91
  7. 7Prince And The Revolution90
  8. 8Sting89
  9. 9Dire Straits85
  10. 10Starship83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.