Artists · Global Music Power
Cher
Charting Jul 3, 1965 → Dec 28, 2024 · 514 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 391 wk (8 at #1), UK Singles Chart 257 wk (12 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
- 2.50%
- week of May 1, 1999
- Career Power
- 464
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 13
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 77
- September 1998 – September 1999
- Peak Five Years
- 157
- December 1987 – November 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 36
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 514
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.58%
- week of Feb 27, 1999
- Comebacks
- 8
- January 1968, November 1971, October 1973, May 1979, February 1988, September 1989, July 1991, January 1999
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Oct 29, 1966 | Jan 13, 1968 | 63 | 40 | 1.69% | 1.02% |
| After absence | Mar 16, 1968 | Nov 6, 1971 | 190 | 183 | 1.69% | 1.05% |
| After decline | Aug 19, 1972 | Oct 13, 1973 | 60 | 39 | 2.02% | 1.12% |
| After absence | Aug 31, 1974 | May 12, 1979 | 245 | 118 | 2.02% | 1.02% |
| After absence | Aug 4, 1979 | Feb 20, 1988 | 446 | 422 | 2.02% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Sep 3, 1988 | Sep 16, 1989 | 54 | 27 | 2.02% | 1.09% |
| After decline | Jun 23, 1990 | Jul 13, 1991 | 55 | 8 | 2.02% | 1.03% |
| After absence | Feb 22, 1992 | Jan 30, 1999 | 362 | 109 | 2.02% | 1.06% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).