Artists · Global Music Power
David Bowie
Charting Aug 30, 1969 → Sep 30, 2017 · 568 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 279 wk (2 at #1), UK Singles Chart 446 wk (11 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 Jul 2, 1983
- Career Power
- 409
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 4
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 80
- December 1982 – December 1983
- Peak Five Years
- 170
- May 1972 – April 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 20
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 568
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.72%
- week of Jun 11, 1983
- Comebacks
- 2
- September 1975, April 1983
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Aug 17, 1974 | Sep 6, 1975 | 55 | 5 | 1.37% | 1.07% |
| After decline | Jul 17, 1976 | Apr 23, 1983 | 353 | 42 | 1.89% | 1.07% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).