Artists · Global Music Power
Sam Cooke
Charting Jan 18, 1958 → Aug 16, 1986 · 303 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 278 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 82 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
- 2.16%
- week of Nov 12, 1960
- Career Power
- 284
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 60
- March 1962 – March 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 236
- May 1960 – May 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 13
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 303
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.27%
- week of Oct 8, 1960
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).