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Charting Jul 28, 1984 → Jun 7, 1986 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 16 wk

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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
0.08%
week of Oct 6, 1984
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
October 1983 – October 1984
Peak Five Years
2
June 1981 – June 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.16%
week of Sep 15, 1984
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

2 records · 2 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
What Is Life?#56111.1
The Great Train Robbery#6250.4

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At their peak

Black Uhuru's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from October 1983 to October 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Lionel Richie138
  2. 2Billy Joel101
  3. 3Culture Club98
  4. 4Cyndi Lauper91
  5. 5Duran Duran84
  6. 6Huey Lewis & The News78
  7. 7Michael Jackson76
  8. 8The Pointer Sisters76
  9. 9Thompson Twins71
  10. 10Elton John67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.