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Marine Band of HMS Ark Royal

Charting Dec 16, 1978Jan 20, 1979 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 6 wk

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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
0.08%
week of Jan 20, 1979
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
January 1978 – January 1979
Peak Five Years
1
February 1974 – January 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.23%
week of Dec 30, 1978
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

1 song · 1 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
The Last Farewell#4661.0

At their peak

Marine Band of HMS Ark Royal's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from January 1978 to January 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bee Gees119
  2. 2Andy Gibb111
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John83
  4. 4Billy Joel78
  5. 5Barry Manilow75
  6. 6Donna Summer75
  7. 7Chic60
  8. 8Foreigner60
  9. 9Eric Clapton58
  10. 10Gerry Rafferty57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.