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Peter Murphy portraitPeter Murphy

Charting Nov 16, 1985 → May 19, 1990 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 9 wk, UK Singles Chart 4 wk

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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
0.17%
week of May 12, 1990
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
May 1989 – May 1990
Peak Five Years
2
June 1985 – May 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.38%
week of May 5, 1990
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

4 records · 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
Cuts You Up#5592.1
Indigo Eyes#9520.1
Final Solution#9210.0
All Night Long#10010.0

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At their peak

Peter Murphy's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from May 1989 to May 1990. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1New Kids On The Block102
  2. 2Madonna100
  3. 3Milli Vanilli98
  4. 4Janet Jackson90
  5. 5Richard Marx85
  6. 6Paula Abdul79
  7. 7Gloria Estefan71
  8. 8Roxette70
  9. 9Bobby Brown67
  10. 10Soul II Soul65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.