Artists · Global Music Power
Living Colour
Charting Aug 6, 1988 → Aug 6, 2011 · 63 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 33 wk, UK Singles Chart 38 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
- 0.85%
- week of May 27, 1989
- Career Power
- 27
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- November 1988 – November 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 27
- April 1988 – April 1993
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 63
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.67%
- week of May 13, 1989
- 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
10 records · 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cult Of PersonalityApple Music | #13#75 | 156 | 13.0 | ||
| Glamour BoysApple Music | #31#94 | 131 | 5.8 | ||
| Love Rears Its Ugly HeadApple Music | #12 | 11 | 5.0 | ||
| Solace of YouApple Music | #33 | 5 | 1.2 | ||
| Leave It AloneApple Music | #34 | 2 | 0.6 | ||
| Open Letter (To A Landlord)Apple Music | #82 | 5 | 0.6 | ||
| TypeApple Music | #75 | 6 | 0.4 | ||
| Cult of Personality {1991} | #67 | 2 | 0.2 | ||
| Glamour Boys {1989} | #83 | 4 | 0.2 | ||
| Auslander | #53 | 1 | 0.2 |
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At their peak
Living Colour's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from November 1988 to November 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Bobby Brown124
- 2Paula Abdul100
- 3Milli Vanilli95
- 4New Kids On The Block93
- 5Bon Jovi84
- 6Madonna81
- 7Fine Young Cannibals71
- 8Guns N' Roses66
- 9Karyn White63
- 10Roxette62
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.