Skip to content

Artists · Global Music Power

Paul Williams

Charting Feb 19, 1972 → Apr 15, 1972 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 9 wk

Compare with other artists →
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
0.15%
week of Apr 15, 1972
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
April 1971 – April 1972
Peak Five Years
2
April 1967 – April 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.32%
week of Apr 8, 1972
Comebacks
0
none detected

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 Global Music Power

1 song · 2 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Waking Up Alone#6091.9

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

Paul Williams's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1971 to April 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Three Dog Night78
  2. 2Carpenters74
  3. 3Al Green66
  4. 4Aretha Franklin61
  5. 5Carole King60
  6. 6Bread59
  7. 7The Honey Cone55
  8. 8Donny Osmond53
  9. 9Rod Stewart53
  10. 10The Osmonds52

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.