Artists · Global Music Power
Ricky Nelson
Charting Feb 22, 1958 → Sep 14, 1991 · 171 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 118 wk (24 at #1), UK Singles Chart 112 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
- 3.10%
- week of Jan 3, 1959
- Career Power
- 264
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 22
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 136
- August 1958 – August 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 258
- October 1957 – September 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 45
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 171
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.32%
- week of Jun 24, 1961
- Comebacks
- 1
- June 1961
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 27, 1960 | Jun 3, 1961 | 66 | 9 | 3.10% | 1.31% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).