Artists · Global Music Power
James Brown
Charting Nov 19, 1960 → Apr 22, 2000 · 418 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 329 wk, UK Singles Chart 113 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 sums to less than 100.
- Peak Power
- 1.63%
- week of Mar 15, 1986
- Career Power
- 259
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 55
- February 1969 – January 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 177
- September 1968 – September 1973
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 418
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.99%
- week of Feb 22, 1986
- Comebacks
- 1
- February 1986
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Jul 8, 1972 | Feb 15, 1986 | 710 | 198 | 1.40% | 1.14% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).