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How Will I Know

Whitney Houston

Entered Dec 7, 1985 · 24 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 3, 2012

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 24 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 13 wk
Record Power
40.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#1
2 weeks there · first Feb 15, 1986
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
24
December 1985 – March 2012

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Whitney Houstonprimary100%39.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 15, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1How Will I KnowWhitney Houston
  2. #2When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get GoingBilly Ocean
  3. #3Burning HeartSurvivor
  4. #4KyrieMr. Mister
  5. #5That's What Friends Are ForDionne Warwick
  6. #6I'm Your ManWham!
  7. #7Living In AmericaJames Brown
  8. #8The Sweetest TabooSade
  9. #9SaraStarship
  10. #10CongaMiami Sound Machine

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