Artists · UK Singles Chart

James Brown

Charting Sep 23, 1965 → Apr 23, 2000 · 113 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 329 wk, UK Singles Chart 113 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 329 wk UK Singles Chart · 113 wk Global Music Power · 418 wk

Peak Power: 1.40%; week of Mar 9, 1986
Career Power: 99; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 28; August 1965 – August 1966
Peak Five Years: 44; June 1983 – June 1988
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 113; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.09%; week of Feb 9, 1986
Comebacks: 1; February 1986

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Nov 3, 1966	Feb 16, 1986	1004	247	1.00%	1.07%

Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).

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

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

27 records · 99 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is the share of each week's Power Share this song earned the artist; a featured credit earns its reduced share. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower
Living In AmericaApple Music	#5February 1986	10	January 1986 – March 1986	18.3
It's a Man's Man's Man's World	#13July 1966	9	June 1966 – August 1966	13.4
The Payback Mix (Part One)	#12May 1988	6	April 1988 – May 1988	9.3
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	#25October 1965	7	September 1965 – November 1965	8.6
Get Up Offa That Thing	#22October 1976	6	September 1976 – October 1976	7.5
Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine	#32October 1970	7	October 1970 – November 1970	6.3
I Got You	#29March 1966	6	February 1966 – March 1966	5.8
Bodyheat	#36February 1977	4	January 1977 – February 1977	3.5
I'm Real	#31June 1988	4	May 1988 – June 1988	3.5
Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?)	#39January 1981	5	January 1981 – February 1981	3.4
Sex Machine	#47June 1985	5	May 1985 – June 1985	2.5
Bring It on... Bring It On	#45July 1983	5	June 1983 – July 1983	2.4
She's the One	#45January 1988	3	January 1988 – February 1988	2.1
Hey America	#47December 1971	3	November 1971 – December 1971	2.1
Funk on Ah Roll	#40April 1999	4	April 1999 – April 2000	2.0
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) {1986}	#46March 1986	4	February 1986 – March 1986	1.7
Froggy Mix	#50April 1985	3	April 1985 – May 1985	1.5
Unitywith Afrika Bambaataa	#49September 1984	5	August 1984 – September 1984	1.2
Gravity	#65October 1986	4	September 1986 – October 1986	1.1
Can't Get Any Harder	#59April 1993	2	April 1993 – April 1993	0.8
I Got You (I Feel Good)/Nowhere to Runwith Martha & The Vandellas	#52July 1988	4	July 1988 – July 1988	0.8
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) {1991}	#69November 1991	2	November 1991 – November 1991	0.6
Soul Power/It's a Man's World	#78April 1986	2	April 1986 – May 1986	0.4
Static	#83August 1988	2	August 1988 – August 1988	0.4
How Do You Stop	#90December 1986	2	December 1986 – December 1986	0.3
Gimme Your Lovewith Aretha Franklin	#79November 1989	2	November 1989 – November 1989	0.2
I Got You (I Feel Good)with Dakeyne	#72October 1992	1	October 1992	0.2

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