Artists · Global Music Power
Prince
Charting Nov 4, 1978 → May 14, 2016 · 394 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 329 wk (5 at #1), UK Singles Chart 183 wk
Image credits
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
- 2.29%
- week of Sep 1, 1984
- Career Power
- 378
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 6
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 72
- March 1987 – February 1988
- Peak Five Years
- 186
- March 1983 – February 1988
- Top-five weeks
- 24
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 394
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.80%
- week of May 14, 2016
- Comebacks
- 3
- May 1983, April 1987, April 1994
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | May 17, 1980 | May 7, 1983 | 155 | 75 | 1.02% | 1.07% |
| After decline | Dec 22, 1984 | Apr 11, 1987 | 120 | 44 | 2.29% | 1.00% |
| After decline | Dec 22, 1990 | Apr 23, 1994 | 174 | 93 | 2.29% | 1.02% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).