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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Yazz And The Plastic Population

Charting Nov 26, 1988Dec 17, 1988 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 4 wk, UK Singles Chart 24 wk (5 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    5 crowns

    19881988

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Jul–Aug 1988) · First crown Jul 1988

Peak Power
0.04%
week of Dec 17, 1988
Career Power
0
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
0
December 1987 – December 1988
Peak Five Years
0
December 1983 – December 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.13%
week of Dec 3, 1988
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 · 0 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
The Only Way Is Up#9640.5

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At their peak

1987 in music

Yazz And The Plastic Population's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1987 to December 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1George Michael137
  2. 2INXS115
  3. 3Michael Jackson110
  4. 4Def Leppard102
  5. 5Whitney Houston101
  6. 6Taylor Dayne93
  7. 7Rick Astley92
  8. 8Debbie Gibson90
  9. 9Steve Winwood77
  10. 10Terence Trent D'Arby77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.