Artists · Global Music Power
James Taylor
Charting Sep 12, 1970 → Apr 30, 1988 · 219 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 215 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 23 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
- 1.61%
- week of Sep 4, 1971
- Career Power
- 177
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 55
- October 1970 – October 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 107
- October 1970 – September 1975
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 219
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.55%
- week of Nov 14, 1970
- Comebacks
- 2
- August 1975, September 1977
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 5, 1972 | Aug 30, 1975 | 186 | 56 | 1.61% | 1.04% |
| After decline | Dec 20, 1975 | Sep 3, 1977 | 89 | 34 | 1.61% | 1.03% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).