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Charting Dec 9, 1978Jun 16, 1990 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 45 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 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
0.87%
week of Mar 3, 1979
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
16
April 1978 – April 1979
Peak Five Years
31
March 1976 – February 1981
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.56%
week of Feb 17, 1979
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

5 records · 35 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
Soul Man#14#7915212.9
Gimme Some Lovin#181410.7
Who's Making Love#39114.4
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love#1283.6
Rubber Biscuit#3783.5

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At their peak

Blues Brothers's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1978 to April 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Olivia Newton-John105
  2. 2Bee Gees94
  3. 3Andy Gibb87
  4. 4Donna Summer75
  5. 5Chic73
  6. 6Billy Joel71
  7. 7Village People69
  8. 8Barry Manilow68
  9. 9Foreigner63
  10. 10The Rolling Stones57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.