Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds")

Coolio feat. L.V.

Entered Aug 19, 1995 · peaked at #1 on Sep 9, 1995 · 38 weeks on the chart, last seen May 4, 1996

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Record Power
93.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
22
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
38
August 1995 – May 1996

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
Coolioprimary70%64.4
L.V.featured30%28.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 9, 1995 on the timeline →
  1. #1Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds")Coolio feat. L.V.
  2. #2You Are Not AloneMichael Jackson
  3. #3Kiss From A RoseSeal
  4. #4WaterfallsTLC
  5. #5Boombastic/In The SummertimeShaggy
  6. #6I Can Love You Like ThatAll-4-One
  7. #7Colors Of The Wind (From "Pocahontas")Vanessa Williams
  8. #8Only Wanna Be With YouHootie & The Blowfish
  9. #9Run-AroundBlues Traveler
  10. #10I Got 5 On ItLuniz

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