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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

What Is This portraitWhat Is This

Charting Aug 17, 1985Sep 21, 1985 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 6 wk

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Peak Power
0.17%
week of Sep 21, 1985
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
September 1984 – September 1985
Peak Five Years
2
October 1980 – September 1985
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.43%
week of Sep 14, 1985
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 · 2 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'll Be Around#6262.0

At their peak

1984 in music

What Is This's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1984 to September 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna161
  2. 2Prince And The Revolution124
  3. 3Billy Ocean114
  4. 4Bryan Adams111
  5. 5Phil Collins105
  6. 6Bruce Springsteen104
  7. 7Tina Turner98
  8. 8Daryl Hall and John Oates96
  9. 9Wham!94
  10. 10Duran Duran88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.