Artists · Global Music Power
Billy Joel
Charting Feb 23, 1974 → Feb 17, 2024 · 494 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 472 wk (12 at #1), UK Singles Chart 163 wk (6 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
- 3.24%
- week of Jan 14, 1984
- Career Power
- 563
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 11
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 114
- August 1983 – July 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 248
- April 1980 – March 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 64
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 494
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.90%
- week of Dec 17, 1983
- Comebacks
- 4
- February 1983, October 1986, November 1989, September 1993
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Jan 17, 1981 | Feb 12, 1983 | 108 | 34 | 2.41% | 1.03% |
| After decline | Oct 13, 1984 | Oct 25, 1986 | 106 | 14 | 3.24% | 1.18% |
| After absence | Mar 7, 1987 | Nov 25, 1989 | 142 | 113 | 3.24% | 1.19% |
| After decline | Jun 2, 1990 | Sep 11, 1993 | 171 | 84 | 3.24% | 1.27% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).