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Young MC portraitYoung MC

Charting Jul 29, 1989Sep 14, 1991 · 46 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 46 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Peak Power
1.87%
week of Nov 25, 1989
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
54
April 1989 – April 1990
Peak Five Years
56
September 1986 – September 1991
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.94%
week of Oct 14, 1989
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

4 records · 56 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
Bust a Move#73944.9
Principal's Office#33147.8
That's the Way Love Goes#5472.5
I Come Off#7550.9

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At their peak

1989 in music

Young MC's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1989 to April 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Milli Vanilli133
  2. 2New Kids On The Block122
  3. 3Paula Abdul118
  4. 4Richard Marx111
  5. 5Madonna109
  6. 6Janet Jackson105
  7. 7Roxette96
  8. 8Bobby Brown87
  9. 9Gloria Estefan80
  10. 10Cher80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s.