Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Will Smith

Charting Feb 28, 1998 → Sep 10, 2005 · 126 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 126 wk, UK Singles Chart 153 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
19972019
Longest reign 4 weeks (Aug 1997) · First crown Aug 1997

Billboard Hot 100 · 126 wk UK Singles Chart · 153 wk Global Music Power · 193 wk

Peak Power: 2.22%; week of Jul 16, 2005
Career Power: 190; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 90; February 1998 – February 1999
Peak Five Years: 136; July 1997 – July 2002
Top-five weeks: 5; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 126; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.58%; week of Mar 14, 1998
Comebacks: 1; Apr 2005, after 5 quiet years

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

8 records · 190 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
Gettin' Jiggy Wit ItApple Music	#1March 1998	32	February 1998 – October 1998	58.8	57.6
SwitchApple Music	#7June 2005	28	March 2005 – September 2005	53.9	51.1
MiamiApple Music	#17February 1999	21	December 1998 – April 1999	30.5	29.8
Wild Wild Westfeat. Dru Hill, Kool Moe DeeApple Music	#1July 1999	17	May 1999 – September 1999	25.5	35.9
Just The Two Of UsApple Music	#20October 1998	11	October 1998 – January 1999	12.7	12.5
Will 2Kfeat. K-CiApple Music	#25December 1999	13	October 1999 – January 2000	7.5	10.6
Freakin' ItApple Music	#99February 2000	4	February 2000 – March 2000	0.5	0.5
Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)feat. Tra-KnoxApple Music	#77June 2002	3	June 2002 – July 2002	0.4	0.5

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At their peak

1998 in music →

Will Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1998 to February 1999. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s.