Artists · Global Music Power
Lionel Richie
Charting Jul 11, 1981 → Apr 4, 2009 · 344 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 301 wk (18 at #1), UK Singles Chart 203 wk (5 at #1)
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
- 3.02%
- week of Jan 21, 1984
- Career Power
- 426
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 16
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 139
- October 1983 – September 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 357
- July 1982 – June 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 55
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 344
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.84%
- week of Jan 14, 1984
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).