Artists · Global Music Power
John Williams
Charting Aug 9, 1975 → Dec 27, 2025 · 65 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 28 wk, UK Singles Chart 37 wk
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
- 0.83%
- week of Mar 11, 1978
- Career Power
- 25
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- April 1977 – March 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- August 1974 – July 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 65
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.65%
- week of Mar 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 →
Songs on the Global Music Power
8 records · 25 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.
| Song | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Record Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | #13 | 14 | 11.7 | ||
| Cavatina (Original Soundtrack from 'the Deer Hunter')Apple Music | #13 | 11 | 4.4 | ||
| Theme from 'Et (the Extra-Terrestrial) | #17 | 10 | 3.5 | ||
| Main Title (Theme From "Jaws")with "Jaws" Soundtrack | #32 | 10 | 2.3 | ||
| Carol of the BellsApple Music | #36 | 13 | 2.1 | ||
| Theme from Jurassic ParkApple Music | #45 | 2 | 0.4 | ||
| Theme From Superman (Main Title)with London Symphony Orchestra | #81 | 4 | 0.2 | ||
| Somewhere in My Memory (Main Title) | #69 | 1 | 0.1 |
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At their peak
John Williams's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1977 to March 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Bee Gees100
- 2Andy Gibb77
- 3Rita Coolidge71
- 4Fleetwood Mac69
- 5Shaun Cassidy68
- 6Electric Light Orchestra64
- 7Donna Summer64
- 8Rod Stewart63
- 9ABBA61
- 10Commodores57
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.