Artists · Global Music Power
Ray Parker Jr.
Charting Apr 19, 1980 → Nov 15, 2025 · 200 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 169 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 65 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
- 2.13%
- week of Sep 29, 1984
- Career Power
- 154
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 2
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 63
- February 1984 – February 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 138
- February 1981 – February 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 200
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.25%
- week of Sep 8, 1984
- Comebacks
- 1
- August 1984
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Nov 6, 1982 | Aug 4, 1984 | 91 | 37 | 1.43% | 1.09% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).