Artists · Global Music Power
Prelude
Charting Jan 19, 1974 → Aug 7, 1982 · 47 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 21 wk, UK Singles Chart 26 wk
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
- 0.51%
- week of Dec 7, 1974
- Career Power
- 16
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 11
- January 1974 – December 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- January 1971 – January 1976
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 47
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.17%
- week of Nov 30, 1974
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →
Songs on the Global Music Power
5 records · 16 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.
| Song | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Record Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After The GoldrushApple Music | #22#21 | 139 | 11.0 | ||
| After the Gold Rush {1982} | #28 | 7 | 2.2 | ||
| For A DancerApple Music | #63 | 8 | 1.3 | ||
| Platinum BlondeApple Music | #45 | 7 | 1.2 | ||
| Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)Apple Music | #55 | 3 | 0.4 |
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At their peak
Prelude's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from January 1974 to December 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Elton John96
- 2Wings76
- 3John Denver72
- 4Stevie Wonder68
- 5The Stylistics66
- 6Gladys Knight And The Pips65
- 7Olivia Newton-John65
- 8Barry White62
- 9Jim Stafford59
- 10Ringo Starr56
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.