Songs · Billboard Hot 100

So Emotional

Whitney Houston

Entered Oct 31, 1987 · peaked at #1 on Jan 9, 1988 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 5, 1988

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 19 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 11 wk
Record Power
37.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
October 1987 – March 1988

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 the song 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%37.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 9, 1988 on the timeline →
  1. #1So EmotionalWhitney Houston
  2. #2Got My Mind Set On YouGeorge Harrison
  3. #3FaithGeorge Michael
  4. #4Is This LoveWhitesnake
  5. #5The Way You Make Me FeelMichael Jackson
  6. #6Need You TonightINXS
  7. #7Shake Your LoveDebbie Gibson
  8. #8Cherry BombJohn Mellencamp
  9. #9Tell It To My Heart(Dub)Taylor Dayne
  10. #10Don't You Want MeJody Watley

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