Artists · Global Music Power
Roy Orbison
Charting Jan 23, 1960 → Nov 13, 1993 · 390 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 249 wk (7 at #1), UK Singles Chart 315 wk (5 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
- 2.32%
- week of Nov 26, 1960
- Career Power
- 426
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 11
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 88
- July 1960 – July 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 324
- April 1960 – April 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 37
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 390
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.71%
- week of Nov 2, 1963
- Comebacks
- 1
- April 1989
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | May 15, 1965 | Apr 1, 1989 | 1246 | 549 | 2.32% | 1.11% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).