Artists · Global Music Power
Kool & The Gang
Charting Sep 13, 1969 → Jun 29, 1991 · 437 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 422 wk, UK Singles Chart 192 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
- 2.13%
- week of Oct 5, 1985
- Career Power
- 441
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 85
- January 1985 – December 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 266
- November 1980 – November 1985
- Top-five weeks
- 17
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 437
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.24%
- week of Feb 25, 1984
- Comebacks
- 1
- December 1979
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Nov 23, 1974 | Dec 8, 1979 | 263 | 139 | 1.44% | 1.01% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).