Artists · Global Music Power
Ray Charles and his Orchestra
Charting Dec 27, 1958 → Dec 17, 1966 · 121 weeks with chart power
Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 121 wk
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
- 1.55%
- week of Jan 20, 1962
- Career Power
- 103
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 44
- May 1961 – May 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 99
- July 1959 – July 1964
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 121
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.48%
- week of Oct 14, 1961
- Comebacks
- 2
- October 1961, October 1963
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 13, 1960 | Oct 28, 1961 | 89 | 28 | 1.17% | 1.07% |
| After decline | Jul 14, 1962 | Oct 26, 1963 | 67 | 32 | 1.55% | 1.03% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).