Artists · Global Music Power
Don McLean
Charting Nov 27, 1971 → Feb 25, 2012 · 136 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 3 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 91 wk (2 at #1), UK Singles Chart 71 wk (5 at #1)
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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 Mar 25, 1972
- Career Power
- 136
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 68
- August 1971 – August 1972
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- July 1970 – June 1975
- Top-five weeks
- 14
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 136
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.28%
- week of Feb 12, 1972
- Comebacks
- 1
- March 1981
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Sep 23, 1972 | Mar 21, 1981 | 443 | 252 | 2.23% | 1.10% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).