Artists · Global Music Power
Dire Straits
Charting Feb 10, 1979 → Jul 12, 2025 · 152 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 83 wk (3 at #1), UK Singles Chart 138 wk
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
- 2.23%
- week of Feb 1, 1986
- Career Power
- 139
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 2
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 81
- June 1985 – May 1986
- Peak Five Years
- 95
- June 1981 – May 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 152
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.08%
- week of Apr 7, 1979
- Comebacks
- 1
- August 1985
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Sep 15, 1979 | Aug 31, 1985 | 311 | 66 | 1.70% | 1.14% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).