Artists · Global Music Power

Blue Oyster Cult

Charting Jul 31, 1976 → Feb 25, 1984 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 41 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 41 wk UK Singles Chart · 15 wk Global Music Power · 55 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: 1.04%; week of Nov 20, 1976
Career Power: 30; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 18; December 1975 – December 1976
Peak Five Years: 24; October 1974 – September 1979
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 55; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.66%; week of Nov 6, 1976
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

4 records · 30 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
(Don't Fear) The ReaperApple Music	#12#16	2014	July 1976 – August 1978	23.6	23.6
Burnin' For YouApple Music	#40	14	August 1981 – November 1981	5.3	5.2
In TheeApple Music	#74	4	September 1979 – September 1979	0.6	0.6
Shooting SharkApple Music	#83#97	31	February 1984 – February 1984	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

Blue Oyster Cult's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from December 1975 to December 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.