Artists · Global Music Power

Young MC

Charting Nov 5, 1988 → Sep 14, 1991 · 53 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 46 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 46 wk UK Singles Chart · 15 wk Global Music Power · 53 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 1.30%; week of Nov 25, 1989
Career Power: 40; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 38; May 1989 – May 1990
Peak Five Years: 40; September 1986 – September 1991
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 53; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.10%; 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 Global Music Power

5 records · 40 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Bust a MoveApple Music	#7#73	395	July 1989 – April 1990	31.3	31.8
Principal's OfficeApple Music	#33#54	143	November 1989 – February 1990	5.8	6.7
That's the Way Love GoesApple Music	#54#65	72	August 1991 – September 1991	1.9	1.9
I Come OffApple Music	#75#78	52	March 1990 – May 1990	0.8	0.9
Know-HowApple Music	#95	3	November 1988 – February 1989	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

Young MC's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from May 1989 to May 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.