Artists · Global Music Power
Ray Charles
Charting Feb 14, 1959 → Mar 3, 1990 · 365 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 3 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 320 wk (12 at #1), UK Singles Chart 123 wk (2 at #1)
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
- 2.92%
- week of Sep 8, 1962
- Career Power
- 284
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 15
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 96
- June 1962 – May 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 202
- August 1960 – August 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 28
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 365
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.84%
- week of Aug 18, 1962
- Comebacks
- 1
- March 1966
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Nov 2, 1963 | Mar 5, 1966 | 122 | 17 | 2.92% | 1.05% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).