Artists · Global Music Power
Big Audio Dynamite
Charting Dec 28, 1985 → Nov 12, 1994 · 64 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 27 wk, UK Singles Chart 37 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
- 0.37%
- week of Nov 23, 1991
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- April 1991 – April 1992
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- May 1987 – April 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 64
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 0.84%
- week of Nov 16, 1991
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →
Songs on the Global Music Power
12 records · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RushApple Music | #32 | 17 | 5.8 | ||
| E = MC2Apple Music | #11 | 9 | 3.9 | ||
| Medicine ShowApple Music | #29 | 7 | 1.5 | ||
| The GlobeApple Music | #72 | 10 | 1.5 | ||
| V ThirteenApple Music | #49 | 5 | 0.8 | ||
| C'Mon Every BeatboxApple Music | #51 | 4 | 0.6 | ||
| Just Play MusicApple Music | #51 | 3 | 0.4 | ||
| Looking for a SongApple Music | #68 | 2 | 0.2 | ||
| Other 99Apple Music | #81 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| ContactApple Music | #86 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| Sightsee MC | #94 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| The Bottom Line | #97 | 1 | 0.0 |
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At their peak
Big Audio Dynamite's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1991 to April 1992. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Color Me Badd123
- 2Mariah Carey102
- 3Bryan Adams100
- 4Amy Grant96
- 5Paula Abdul95
- 6Michael Bolton94
- 7Boyz II Men78
- 8Prince And The New Power Generation75
- 9Extreme66
- 10Michael Jackson66
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.