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Inspiral Carpets portraitInspiral Carpets

Charting Aug 26, 1989Dec 24, 2016 · 57 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 57 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
0.28%
week of Apr 14, 1990
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
December 1989 – December 1990
Peak Five Years
17
May 1989 – May 1994
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.74%
week of Feb 29, 1992
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

17 records · 18 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
This Is How It Feels#1493.8
Dragging Me Down#1252.5
She Comes in the Fall#2762.0
Saturn 5#2051.8
Island Head (Ep)#2141.6
Caravan#3051.4
I Want You#1831.0
Generations#2830.9
Two Worlds Collide#3220.5
Bitches Brew#3620.5
Joe#3720.4
Move#4920.3
Come Back Tomorrow#4320.3
Please Be Cruel#5020.3
Uniform#5120.2
How It Should Be#4910.2
Find Out Why#9020.1

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At their peak

Inspiral Carpets's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from December 1989 to December 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Janet Jackson114
  2. 2Phil Collins94
  3. 3New Kids On The Block86
  4. 4Madonna84
  5. 5Michael Bolton78
  6. 6Roxette74
  7. 7Wilson Phillips73
  8. 8Taylor Dayne73
  9. 9MC Hammer71
  10. 10Bell Biv DeVoe66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.