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Gordon Giltrap portraitGordon Giltrap

Charting Jan 7, 1978May 5, 1979 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 10 wk

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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
0.23%
week of Feb 18, 1978
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
February 1977 – February 1978
Peak Five Years
3
May 1974 – May 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.55%
week of Feb 4, 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

2 records · 3 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Heartsong#2172.8
Fear of the Dark#5830.3

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At their peak

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

  1. 1Bee Gees81
  2. 2Fleetwood Mac78
  3. 3Shaun Cassidy68
  4. 4Andy Gibb65
  5. 5Rita Coolidge65
  6. 6Electric Light Orchestra64
  7. 7ABBA64
  8. 8Donna Summer62
  9. 9Leo Sayer61
  10. 10Rod Stewart60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.