Artists · Global Music Power

Belle & Sebastian

Charting May 17, 1997 → Jul 8, 2006 · 31 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 31 wk

UK Singles Chart · 31 wk Global Music Power · 31 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.12%; week of Mar 6, 2004
Career Power: 8; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 3; July 2003 – July 2004
Peak Five Years: 6; May 2001 – April 2006
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 31; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.75%; week of Jan 21, 2006
Comebacks: 0; none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Global Music Power

12 records · 8 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Funny Little FrogApple Music	#13	4	January 2006 – February 2006	1.4	1.3
I'm a CuckooApple Music	#14	4	February 2004 – March 2004	1.3	1.3
Legal ManApple Music	#15	3	May 2000 – June 2000	1.2	1.2
Books	#20	3	June 2004 – July 2004	0.9	0.9
The Blues Are Still BlueApple Music	#25	3	April 2006 – April 2006	0.7	0.6
Jonathan David	#31	2	June 2001 – July 2001	0.6	0.6
Step Into My Office Baby	#32	2	November 2003 – November 2003	0.5	0.5
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light	#32	2	October 1997 – October 1997	0.5	0.5
I'm Waking Up to Us	#39	2	December 2001 – December 2001	0.4	0.4
Lazy Line Painter JaneApple Music	#41	2	August 1997 – August 1997	0.4	0.4
The White Collar Boy	#45	2	July 2006 – July 2006	0.3	0.3
Dog on WheelsApple Music	#59	2	May 1997 – May 1997	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

Belle & Sebastian's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from July 2003 to July 2004. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.