Artists · Global Music Power
Elvis Presley
Charting May 12, 1956 → Jan 3, 2026 · 1214 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 762 wk (12 at #1), UK Singles Chart 1,027 wk (117 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
- 2.90%
- week of Jul 1, 1961
- Career Power
- 1,368
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 70
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 130
- November 1960 – November 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 466
- July 1957 – June 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 193
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1,214
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.29%
- week of Sep 23, 1961
- Comebacks
- 4
- May 1969, December 1974, March 1977, February 2005
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Oct 1, 1966 | May 24, 1969 | 138 | 9 | 2.90% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Jul 21, 1973 | Dec 14, 1974 | 73 | 7 | 2.90% | 1.11% |
| After decline | May 3, 1975 | Mar 12, 1977 | 97 | 15 | 2.90% | 1.02% |
| After absence | Mar 4, 1978 | Feb 26, 2005 | 1408 | 190 | 2.90% | 1.02% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).