Artists · UK Singles Chart

Marvin Gaye

Charting Jul 30, 1964 → Jan 26, 2024 · 199 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 3 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)

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Image credits

Photo: Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same session—many of them in full color—can be seen at his website . Originally distributed by Motown Records ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 517 wk UK Singles Chart · 199 wk Global Music Power · 563 wk

Peak Power: 2.47%; week of Apr 30, 1969
Career Power: 234; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 4; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 88; January 1969 – January 1970
Peak Five Years: 144; January 1967 – January 1972
Top-five weeks: 13; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 199; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.79%; week of Mar 12, 1969
Comebacks: 3; June 1977, November 1982, May 1986

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Sep 27, 1970	Jun 5, 1977	348	137	2.47%	1.14%
After absence	Aug 21, 1977	Nov 21, 1982	273	186	2.47%	1.11%
After decline	Mar 13, 1983	May 18, 1986	166	73	2.47%	1.00%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

28 records · 234 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 — a #1 week is 3.5 whoever holds it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I Heard It Through The GrapevineApple Music	#1March 1969	15	February 1969 – May 1969	37.3	37.3
Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby	#5September 1969	16	July 1969 – November 1969	32.3	32.1
Abraham, Martin and JohnApple Music	#9June 1970	14	May 1970 – August 1970	25.1	25.0
Sexual HealingApple Music	#4November 1982	14	October 1982 – January 1983	22.0	22.5
Got to Give It UpApple Music	#7May 1977	10	May 1977 – July 1977	20.3	20.3
I Heard It Through the Grapevine {1986}	#8May 1986	8	April 1986 – June 1986	13.9	13.8
You Are Everythingwith Diana RossApple Music	#5April 1974	12	March 1974 – June 1974	12.2	24.2
You're All I Need To Get Bywith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#19November 1968	19	October 1968 – February 1969	11.6	23.8
The Onion Songwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#9December 1969	11	November 1969 – January 1970	10.1	20.2
It Takes Twowith Kim WestonApple Music	#16February 1967	11	January 1967 – April 1967	8.7	17.2
Let's Get It OnApple Music	#31September 1973	7	September 1973 – October 1973	7.2	7.1
Little Darlin'/Save the ChildrenApple Music	#41December 1971	6	December 1971 – January 1972	4.7	4.7
Stop Look Listen (to Your Heart)with Diana RossApple Music	#25August 1974	8	July 1974 – September 1974	4.5	9.1
You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovinwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#21February 1969	8	January 1969 – March 1969	4.0	10.7
Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come Bywith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#26July 1969	8	June 1969 – July 1969	3.9	7.9
My Love Is WaitingApple Music	#34January 1983	5	January 1983 – January 1983	3.5	3.5
Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thingwith Tammi Terrell	#34July 1968	7	June 1968 – July 1968	3.3	6.6
If I Could Build My Whole World Around Youwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#41January 1968	7	January 1968 – February 1968	2.7	5.4
Sanctified Lady	#51May 1985	4	May 1985 – June 1985	2.0	2.0
What's Going OnApple Music	#80November 1983	4	November 1983 – December 1983	0.8	0.8
How Sweet It Is	#49December 1964	1	December 1964	0.7	0.7
Little Darlin' (I Need You)	#50September 1966	1	September 1966	0.7	0.6
Musicfeatured credit · with Erick SermonApple Music	#36September 2001	2	September 2001 – October 2001	0.5	1.7
Lucky Lucky Me	#67May 1994	2	May 1994 – May 1994	0.5	0.5
Ain't No Mountain High Enoughwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#80April 2013	5	April 2013 – January 2024	0.5	0.9
Pops, We Love Youwith Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Stevie WonderApple Music	#66March 1979	5	February 1979 – March 1979	0.4	1.8
Once Upon A Timewith Mary WellsApple Music	#50July 1964	1	July 1964	0.3	0.6
The World Is Rated X	#95June 1986	1	June 1986	0.1	0.1

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