Artists · Global Music Power

Gene Cotton

Charting Nov 16, 1974 → May 1, 1982 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 63 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 63 wk Global Music Power · 63 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · 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.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.63%; week of Apr 15, 1978
Career Power: 23; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 16; December 1977 – December 1978
Peak Five Years: 22; December 1973 – December 1978
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 63; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.15%; week of Apr 8, 1978
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 · 23 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
Before My Heart Finds Out	#23	14	February 1978 – May 1978	9.3	9.1
You've Got Me Runnin	#33	11	December 1976 – February 1977	4.8	4.8
Like A Sunday In Salem (The Amos & Andy Song)	#40	10	September 1978 – December 1978	3.6	3.5
You're A Part Of Mewith Kim Carnes	#36	12	June 1978 – September 1978	2.8	5.6
If I Could Get You (into my Life)	#76	8	March 1982 – May 1982	1.0	1.0
Sunshine Roses	#79	5	November 1974 – December 1974	0.7	0.7
Damn It All	#73	3	May 1975 – June 1975	0.5	0.5

At their peak

Gene Cotton's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from December 1977 to December 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.