Artists · Global Music Power
Men They Couldn't Hang
Charting Jun 21, 1986 → Mar 11, 1989 · 12 weeks with chart power
Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 12 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
- 0.05%
- week of Apr 23, 1988
- Career Power
- 1
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 1
- March 1988 – March 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 1
- March 1984 – March 1989
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 0.14%
- week of Apr 9, 1988
- 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
6 records · 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.
| Song | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Record Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The ColoursApple Music | #61 | 6 | 0.6 | ||
| Rain Steam and SpeedApple Music | #88 | 2 | 0.1 | ||
| Island in the Rain | #92 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
| Ghosts of Cable Street | #94 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
| The Crest | #94 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
| Gold Rush | #99 | 1 | 0.0 |
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At their peak
Men They Couldn't Hang's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from March 1988 to March 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Def Leppard86
- 2Michael Jackson85
- 3Rick Astley81
- 4George Michael79
- 5Taylor Dayne72
- 6Debbie Gibson71
- 7Phil Collins69
- 8Breathe69
- 9Kylie Minogue67
- 10Whitney Houston67
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.