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Charting Aug 2, 1980Jun 9, 1990 · 81 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 81 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 112 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    First crown Oct 1987

  • Global Music Power

    2 crowns

    19792011

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov–Dec 1987) · First crown Nov 1987

Peak Power
2.86%
week of Jan 9, 1988
Career Power
103
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
81
May 1987 – April 1988
Peak Five Years
100
June 1985 – June 1990
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
81
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.62%
week of Dec 19, 1987
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

7 records · 103 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
Here I Go Again#12839.6
Is This Love#21934.9
Fool For Your Loving#372211.6
The Deeper The Love#281410.8
Give Me All Your Love#48114.9
Still Of The Night#7971.1
Now You're Gone#9620.3

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At their peak

1987 in music

Whitesnake's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1987 to April 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston127
  2. 2George Michael113
  3. 3Debbie Gibson102
  4. 4Michael Jackson100
  5. 5Expose94
  6. 6Richard Marx93
  7. 7Heart89
  8. 8Tiffany88
  9. 9Fleetwood Mac84
  10. 10U282

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.