Artists · Global Music Power

Gang Starr

Charting Oct 6, 1990 → Feb 28, 1998 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 24 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Photo: DJ Premier 2008.jpg : Alan Mildor and Guru.jpg : Barbara Mürdter derivative work: Karppinen ( talk ), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 24 wk UK Singles Chart · 10 wk Global Music Power · 34 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, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 0.13%; week of May 7, 1994
Career Power: 5; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 2; October 1993 – October 1994
Peak Five Years: 4; March 1993 – February 1998
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 34; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.26%; week of Mar 26, 1994
Comebacks: 0; none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Global Music Power

7 records · 5 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Mass AppealApple Music	#67	11	March 1994 – May 1994	2.1	2.0
You Know My Steez	#76	13	December 1997 – February 1998	1.8	1.8
LovesickApple Music	#50	3	May 1991 – June 1991	0.5	0.5
Jazz ThingApple Music	#66	2	October 1990 – October 1990	0.2	0.2
2 DeepApple Music	#67	2	June 1992 – June 1992	0.2	0.2
Take a RestApple Music	#63	2	February 1991 – February 1991	0.2	0.2
Code to the Street Ep	#91	1	October 1994	0.0	0.0

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At their peak

Gang Starr's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from October 1993 to October 1994. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.