Artists · Global Music Power
Foreigner
Charting Mar 26, 1977 → Jul 1, 1995 · 294 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 283 wk (3 at #1), UK Singles Chart 86 wk (3 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
- 2.71%
- week of Feb 6, 1982
- Career Power
- 343
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 11
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 87
- July 1981 – July 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 227
- April 1977 – April 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 33
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 294
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.50%
- week of Feb 2, 1985
- Comebacks
- 3
- September 1981, January 1985, February 1988
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Apr 19, 1980 | Sep 5, 1981 | 72 | 63 | 1.99% | 1.00% |
| After absence | Aug 14, 1982 | Jan 12, 1985 | 126 | 116 | 2.71% | 1.04% |
| After absence | Aug 10, 1985 | Feb 20, 1988 | 132 | 111 | 2.71% | 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).