Artists · Global Music Power
Del Shannon
Charting Mar 11, 1961 → Feb 27, 1982 · 187 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 138 wk (3 at #1), UK Singles Chart 139 wk (1 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
- 2.58%
- week of Aug 12, 1961
- Career Power
- 197
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 5
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 86
- February 1961 – February 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 191
- June 1960 – June 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 20
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 187
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.36%
- week of May 27, 1961
- Comebacks
- 1
- January 1965
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Aug 10, 1963 | Jan 23, 1965 | 76 | 12 | 2.58% | 1.04% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).