Artists · Global Music Power
Paul Anka
Charting Aug 10, 1957 → Oct 1, 1983 · 426 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 379 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 115 wk (6 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
- 3.03%
- week of Dec 26, 1959
- Career Power
- 397
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 10
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 123
- June 1959 – May 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 292
- August 1957 – July 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 53
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 426
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.55%
- week of Dec 12, 1959
- Comebacks
- 1
- January 1976
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Aug 25, 1962 | Jan 31, 1976 | 701 | 261 | 3.03% | 1.15% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).