Artists · Global Music Power
Michael Jackson
Charting Oct 30, 1971 → Aug 8, 2026 · 803 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 574 wk (43 at #1), UK Singles Chart 622 wk (19 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
- 3.69%
- week of May 14, 1983
- Career Power
- 1,028
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 49
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 155
- January 1983 – January 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 328
- August 1979 – August 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 142
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 803
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.15%
- week of Apr 16, 1983
- Comebacks
- 7
- October 1979, January 1983, October 1987, December 1991, September 1995, January 2002, June 2026
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Mar 24, 1973 | Oct 6, 1979 | 341 | 158 | 2.10% | 1.15% |
| After decline | Sep 27, 1980 | Jan 29, 1983 | 122 | 62 | 2.72% | 1.04% |
| After absence | Aug 18, 1984 | Oct 3, 1987 | 163 | 146 | 3.69% | 1.33% |
| After absence | Apr 15, 1989 | Dec 21, 1991 | 140 | 117 | 3.69% | 1.43% |
| After decline | Dec 11, 1993 | Sep 9, 1995 | 91 | 72 | 3.69% | 1.31% |
| After absence | Mar 23, 1996 | Jan 12, 2002 | 303 | 206 | 3.69% | 1.33% |
| After absence | Apr 13, 2002 | Jun 6, 2026 | 1260 | 110 | 3.69% | 1.31% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).