Artists · Global Music Power
Ben E. King
Charting Jan 7, 1961 → May 2, 2015 · 168 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 153 wk, UK Singles Chart 40 wk (3 at #1)
Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · 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 sums to less than 100.
- Peak Power
- 1.46%
- week of Jul 22, 1961
- Career Power
- 119
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 50
- December 1960 – December 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 75
- April 1960 – April 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 168
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.43%
- week of Jun 24, 1961
- Comebacks
- 1
- December 1986
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Dec 30, 1961 | Dec 27, 1986 | 1304 | 587 | 1.46% | 1.02% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).