Artists · Global Music Power
Robert Palmer
Charting Dec 4, 1976 → Jan 18, 2003 · 261 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 180 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 141 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
- 1.70%
- week of Jun 7, 1986
- Career Power
- 184
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 65
- January 1986 – January 1987
- Peak Five Years
- 125
- March 1986 – March 1991
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 261
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.72%
- week of May 10, 1986
- Comebacks
- 2
- September 1988, April 1991
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 28, 1987 | Sep 3, 1988 | 79 | 54 | 1.70% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Mar 25, 1989 | Apr 20, 1991 | 108 | 47 | 1.70% | 1.05% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).