Artists · Global Music Power

Loose Ends

Charting Feb 11, 1984 → Aug 29, 1992 · 92 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 10 wk, UK Singles Chart 86 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 10 wk UK Singles Chart · 86 wk Global Music Power · 92 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: 0.44%; week of Jun 1, 1985
Career Power: 25; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 12; September 1984 – September 1985
Peak Five Years: 19; October 1983 – September 1988
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 92; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.73%; week of Mar 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

18 records · 25 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
Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)Apple Music	#13	14	February 1985 – May 1985	5.2	5.2
Hangin' On A StringApple Music	#43	10	July 1985 – September 1985	3.4	3.3
Don't Be a FoolApple Music	#13	9	August 1990 – October 1990	3.4	3.4
Magic TouchApple Music	#16	7	May 1985 – June 1985	3.2	3.2
Slow DownApple Music	#27	7	September 1986 – October 1986	2.3	2.3
Hangin' on a String (Knuckles Remix)Apple Music	#25	5	June 1992 – July 1992	1.6	1.6
Emergency (Dial 999)Apple Music	#41	6	April 1984 – May 1984	1.1	1.1
Nights of PleasureApple Music	#42	7	November 1986 – January 1987	1.0	1.0
Love's Got MeApple Music	#40	4	November 1990 – December 1990	0.9	0.9
Stay a Little Wild Child	#52	5	June 1986 – July 1986	0.7	0.7
Mr BachelorApple Music	#50	4	May 1988 – June 1988	0.6	0.6
Golden YearsApple Music	#59	4	July 1985 – August 1985	0.5	0.5
Choose Me (Rescue Me)Apple Music	#59	5	July 1984 – July 1984	0.5	0.5
Tell Me What You WantApple Music	#74	4	February 1984 – March 1984	0.3	0.3
Watching YouApple Music	#83	4	August 1988 – September 1988	0.2	0.2
Ooh You Make Me FeelApple Music	#77	2	September 1987 – September 1987	0.1	0.1
Magic Touch {1992}	#75	1	August 1992	0.1	0.1
Cheap Talk	#92	1	March 1991	0.0	0.0

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At their peak

Loose Ends's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from September 1984 to September 1985. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.