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Charting Jan 8, 1977Feb 29, 1992 · 102 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 71 wk, UK Singles Chart 43 wk

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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, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power
0.66%
week of Nov 13, 1982
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
January 1981 – January 1982
Peak Five Years
27
June 1979 – June 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
102
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.38%
week of Oct 30, 1982
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Global Music Power

16 records · 34 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

SongPeakWeeksPower
New World Man#21#421238.8
The Big Money#45#461434.9
Tom Sawyer#44134.0
Spirit of Radio#1373.2
Closer To The Heart#69#361132.6
Tom Sawyer (Live)#2562.3
The Spirit Of Radio#5182.2
Limelight#5592.2
Countdown/New World Man#3651.2
Vital Signs/A Passage to Bangkok#4140.8
Prime Mover#4330.6
Fly By Night/In The Mood#8840.4
The Body Electric#5630.4
Subdivisions#5320.3
Time Stand Stillwith Aimee Mann#4230.3
Roll the Bones#4910.2

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At their peak

Rush's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from January 1981 to January 1982. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Sheena Easton82
  2. 2REO Speedwagon78
  3. 3Juice Newton77
  4. 4Foreigner64
  5. 5Rick Springfield64
  6. 6Diana Ross63
  7. 7Air Supply63
  8. 8John Lennon63
  9. 9Neil Diamond62
  10. 10The Police60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.