Artists · Global Music Power

SaFire

Charting Sep 24, 1988 → Apr 6, 1991 · 60 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 60 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 60 wk Global Music Power · 60 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · 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.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

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Peak Power: 1.02%; week of May 20, 1989
Career Power: 27; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 23; August 1988 – August 1989
Peak Five Years: 27; April 1986 – April 1991
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 60; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.68%; week of May 13, 1989
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

5 records · 27 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Thinking Of You	#12	24	February 1989 – July 1989	18.1	17.9
Boy, I've Been ToldApple Music	#48	16	September 1988 – January 1989	4.3	4.3
I Will Survive	#53	11	December 1989 – February 1990	2.7	2.7
Gonna Make It	#71	7	June 1989 – August 1989	1.0	1.1
Made Up My MindApple Music	#82	6	March 1991 – April 1991	0.7	0.7

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At their peak

SaFire's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.