Artists · Global Music Power
Marvin Gaye
Charting Oct 20, 1962 → Jan 27, 2024 · 563 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 517 wk (13 at #1), UK Singles Chart 199 wk (4 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
- 2.17%
- week of Feb 22, 1969
- Career Power
- 528
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 7
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 94
- November 1968 – November 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 224
- January 1967 – January 1972
- Top-five weeks
- 46
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 563
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.05%
- week of Jun 18, 1977
- Comebacks
- 5
- November 1968, April 1971, September 1973, May 1977, December 1982
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | May 14, 1966 | Nov 23, 1968 | 132 | 13 | 1.31% | 1.03% |
| After decline | Mar 28, 1970 | Apr 17, 1971 | 55 | 28 | 2.17% | 1.12% |
| After decline | Feb 5, 1972 | Sep 1, 1973 | 82 | 25 | 2.17% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Jun 22, 1974 | May 28, 1977 | 153 | 73 | 2.17% | 1.16% |
| After absence | Oct 15, 1977 | Dec 11, 1982 | 269 | 187 | 2.17% | 1.07% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).