Artists · Global Music Power
Boys Don't Cry
Charting Apr 5, 1986 → May 23, 1987 · 21 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 19 wk, UK Singles Chart 6 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
- 0.93%
- week of Jul 12, 1986
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- August 1985 – August 1986
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- June 1982 – May 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.68%
- week of Jun 21, 1986
- 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Wanna Be A CowboyApple Music | #12#77 | 194 | 15.0 | ||
| Who the Am Dam Do You Think You AmApple Music | #94 | 2 | 0.1 |
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At their peak
Boys Don't Cry's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from August 1985 to August 1986. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Whitney Houston103
- 2Madonna99
- 3Mr. Mister79
- 4Dire Straits75
- 5Billy Ocean72
- 6John Mellencamp72
- 7Heart71
- 8a-ha66
- 9Starship66
- 10Wham!64
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.