Artists · Global Music Power

Julia Fordham

Charting Apr 9, 1988 → Feb 18, 1995 · 45 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 45 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 45 wk Global Music Power · 45 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: 0.24%; week of Feb 29, 1992
Career Power: 9; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 4; June 1991 – June 1992
Peak Five Years: 8; June 1987 – June 1992
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 45; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.58%; week of Feb 1, 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

11 records · 9 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
Love Moves (in Mysterious Ways)Apple Music	#19	9	January 1992 – March 1992	3.2	3.2
Happy Ever AfterApple Music	#27	10	June 1988 – August 1988	2.5	2.5
Where Does the Time GoApple Music	#41	6	February 1989 – March 1989	1.1	1.1
Different Time Different PlaceApple Music	#41	4	April 1994 – May 1994	0.6	0.6
I Thought It Was You {1992}	#45	3	May 1992 – June 1992	0.6	0.6
I Thought It Was YouApple Music	#64	2	August 1991 – September 1991	0.2	0.2
I Can't Help MyselfApple Music	#62	2	July 1994 – July 1994	0.2	0.2
Lock and KeyApple Music	#80	3	August 1989 – September 1989	0.2	0.2
Woman of the 80S	#83	3	October 1988 – October 1988	0.2	0.2
The Comfort of StrangersApple Music	#89	2	April 1988 – April 1988	0.1	0.1
Hope Prayer & Time	#97	1	February 1995	0.0	0.0

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At their peak

Julia Fordham's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from June 1991 to June 1992. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.