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Michael Jackson portraitMichael Jackson

Charting Oct 30, 1971Aug 8, 2026 · 574 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 574 wk (43 crowns), UK Singles Chart 650 wk (24 crowns)

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Artist of the Year

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    43 crowns

    Longest reign 23 weeks (Mar–Aug 1983) · First crown Oct 1972

  • UK Singles Chart

    24 crowns

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1983) · First crown Jun 1981

  • Global Music Power

    48 crowns

    19712026

    Longest reign 14 weeks (Feb–May 1983) · First crown Sep 1972

Peak Power
4.24%
week of Jun 11, 1983
Career Power
1,054
share-weeks
Crowns
43
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
179
January 1983 – January 1984
Peak Five Years
359
August 1979 – August 1984
Top-five weeks
118
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
574
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.67%
week of Apr 16, 1983
Comebacks
7
Oct 1979, after 7 quiet years · Jan 1983 · Oct 1987 · Dec 1991 · Sep 1995 · Jan 2002, after 6 quiet years · May 2026, after 24 quiet years

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 Billboard Hot 100

51 records · 1,045 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Billie Jean#13263.2
Rock With You#12547.7
Beat It#12846.7
Thriller#42645.0
You Are Not Alone#12043.2
Remember The Time#32042.6
Black Or White#12041.3
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough#12635.1
Will You Be There#72034.8
Got To Be There#41433.6
Man In The Mirror#11733.6
The Way You Make Me Feel#11832.1
Rockin' Robin#21331.0
Human Nature#72330.5
Ben#11630.4
Butterflies#142030.0
Dirty Diana#11527.4
In The Closet#62026.7
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin#51526.1
Bad#11425.2
Smooth Criminal#71524.1
She's Out Of My Life#101624.0
Say Say Saywith Paul McCartney#12223.3
Off The Wall#101720.6
Who Is It#141820.1
The Girl Is Minewith Paul McCartney#21819.1
You Rock My World#102018.9
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)#101618.8
Another Part Of Me#111317.7
Heal The World#272015.9
I Wanna Be Where You Are#161114.8
Jam#261413.4
I Just Can't Stop Loving Youwith Siedah Garrett#11413.1
Scream/Childhoodwith Janet Jackson#51712.9
Chicago#261011.6
Just A Little Bit Of You#231210.6
They Don't Care About Us#30139.5
Farewell My Summer Love#38127.0
Blood On The Dance Floor#42114.6
With A Child's Heart#5073.4
We're Almost There#5483.1
Don't Matter To Mefeatured credit · with Drake#952.7
Ease On Down The Roadwith Diana Ross#4192.7
One Day In Your Life#5572.5
Hold My Handwith Akon#3992.2
One More Chance#8350.7
You Can't Win (Part 1)#8130.6
Slave To The Rhythm#4510.3
Stranger In Moscow#9120.3
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008with Akon#8130.3
Get Itwith Stevie Wonder#8060.3

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At their peak

1983 in music

Michael Jackson's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1983 to January 1984. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Michael Jackson179
  2. 2Culture Club135
  3. 3Lionel Richie120
  4. 4Duran Duran113
  5. 5Billy Joel102
  6. 6Men At Work100
  7. 7The Police100
  8. 8Irene Cara83
  9. 9David Bowie82
  10. 10Prince82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.