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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

World Party

Charting Feb 14, 1987May 23, 1987 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
0.72%
week of May 9, 1987
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
May 1986 – May 1987
Peak Five Years
10
June 1982 – May 1987
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.44%
week of Apr 25, 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

1 song · 10 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
Ship Of Fools (Save Me From Tomorrow)#271510.3

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At their peak

1986 in music

World Party's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1986 to May 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Madonna137
  2. 2Janet Jackson129
  3. 3Genesis121
  4. 4Huey Lewis & The News105
  5. 5Lionel Richie95
  6. 6Bon Jovi83
  7. 7Cyndi Lauper76
  8. 8Peter Gabriel75
  9. 9Steve Winwood74
  10. 10The Bangles73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.