Artists · Global Music Power
Britney Spears
Charting Nov 21, 1998 → Dec 28, 2024 · 513 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 416 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 401 wk (8 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
- 3.38%
- week of Feb 21, 2009
- Career Power
- 644
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 2
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 104
- December 1998 – December 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 287
- December 2006 – December 2011
- Top-five weeks
- 51
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 513
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.83%
- week of Dec 20, 2008
- Comebacks
- 3
- March 2004, November 2007, March 2013
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | May 5, 2001 | Mar 13, 2004 | 149 | 41 | 2.37% | 1.08% |
| After absence | Dec 18, 2004 | Nov 3, 2007 | 150 | 123 | 2.37% | 1.12% |
| After decline | Dec 17, 2011 | Mar 23, 2013 | 66 | 52 | 3.38% | 1.19% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).