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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Nothing Compares 2 U

Sinead O'Connor

Entered Mar 17, 1990 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 4, 1990

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 22 wk
Record Power
42.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#1
4 weeks there · first Apr 21, 1990
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
March 1990 – August 1990

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
Sinead O'Connorprimary100%42.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 21, 1990 on the timeline →
  1. #1Nothing Compares 2 USinead O'Connor
  2. #2Don't Wanna Fall In LoveJane Child
  3. #3All Around The WorldLisa Stansfield
  4. #4I Wanna Be RichCalloway
  5. #5I'll Be Your EverythingTommy Page
  6. #6Here And NowLuther Vandross
  7. #7How Can We Be LoversMichael Bolton
  8. #8ForeverKISS
  9. #9Without YouMotley Crue
  10. #10Whole Wide World (From "True Love")A'me Lorain

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