Artists · Global Music Power

Killing Joke

Charting May 16, 1981 → Mar 25, 2006 · 62 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 62 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 62 wk Global Music Power · 62 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, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 0.28%; week of Mar 9, 1985
Career Power: 12; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 5; April 1984 – March 1985
Peak Five Years: 8; October 1981 – October 1986
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 62; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.65%; week of Feb 23, 1985
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

19 records · 12 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 Like BloodApple Music	#16	9	January 1985 – March 1985	3.7	3.7
AdorationsApple Music	#42	7	August 1986 – September 1986	1.3	1.3
Empire SongApple Music	#43	4	March 1982 – April 1982	0.8	0.8
Follow the LeadersApple Music	#55	5	May 1981 – June 1981	0.7	0.7
The Pandemonium Single	#28	3	July 1994 – July 1994	0.7	0.7
MilleniumApple Music	#34	3	May 1994 – May 1994	0.7	0.7
Loose Cannon	#25	2	July 2003 – July 2003	0.7	0.7
EightiesApple Music	#60	5	April 1984 – April 1984	0.7	0.7
Let's All Go (to the Fire Dances)Apple Music	#51	3	June 1983 – July 1983	0.5	0.5
A New DayApple Music	#56	3	July 1984 – July 1984	0.4	0.4
DemocracyApple Music	#39	2	March 1996 – March 1996	0.4	0.4
Kings and QueensApple Music	#58	3	March 1985 – April 1985	0.3	0.3
Me or You?Apple Music	#57	2	October 1983 – October 1983	0.2	0.2
Birds of a FeatherApple Music	#64	2	October 1982 – October 1982	0.2	0.2
AmericaApple Music	#77	3	April 1988 – May 1988	0.2	0.2
JanaApple Music	#54	2	January 1995 – February 1995	0.2	0.2
SanityApple Music	#70	2	October 1986 – October 1986	0.2	0.2
Hosannas from the Basements of Hell	#72	1	March 2006	0.1	0.1
My Love of This LandApple Music	#89	2	July 1988 – July 1988	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

Killing Joke's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1984 to March 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.