First there was Jefferson Airplane and then it became Jefferson Starship and then, when Paul Kantner, the last remaining founding member of Jefferson Airplane, left the band he instituted legal action against his former band mates prohibiting them from using the name Jefferson Starship. However, the legal wranglings did not stop them from being allowed to use the name Starship which they did. The remaining members of Jefferson Starship included Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas. They set about recording their first album under this new name and the result, ‘Knee Deep In The Hoopla’, would peak at 7 on the US album charts and produce 2 number 1 singles (‘We Built This City’ and ‘Sara’) as well as 2 further Hot 100 hits (‘Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter Tonight’ (#26) and ‘Before I Go’ (#68)). They would see a further US chart topper with the lead single off their second album (‘No Protection’) in the form of ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now’ which had been used in the film ‘Mannequin’ which starred Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall. However, their popularity waned after this and they would only see 6 further Hot 100 hits (11 hits in total) with only 2 of those cracking the top 20 of the chart.
| Date of entry | Song | Peak (weeks at 1) | Weeks |
| 12-Jan-1986 | We Built This City | 1 (2) | 22 |
| 13-Apr-1986 | Sara | 10 | 15 |
| 03-May-1987 | Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now | 3 | 31 |
| Total hits | 3 | ||
| Total weeks | 68 |
| Biggest climber awards | 4 |
| Star rater climbs | 8 |
| Biggest fallers | 4 |
| Weeks with oldest in the charts | 8 |
| Longest run in the charts (weeks) | 31 |
| Weeks with more than 1 in the charts | 9 |
| Biggest gap between hits (weeks) | 40 |
| Top 30 points ranking | 90 |
| Top 20 points ranking | =95 |
| Top 30 points | 1206 |
| Top 20 points | 604 |
Starship had the tied highest weeks count for acts managing 3 hits. They were equalled by Jennifer Warnes.
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