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Sam Salter

Charting Aug 23, 1997Sep 5, 1998 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 28 wk

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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.

Peak Power
0.25%
week of Oct 25, 1997
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
6
August 1997 – August 1998
Peak Five Years
7
September 1993 – September 1998
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.44%
week of Sep 27, 1997
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

2 records · 7 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
After 12, Before 6#51164.8
There You Are#57121.9

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At their peak

Sam Salter's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from August 1997 to August 1998. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Usher131
  2. 2LeAnn Rimes125
  3. 3Spice Girls100
  4. 4Backstreet Boys99
  5. 5Savage Garden98
  6. 6Third Eye Blind84
  7. 7Janet Jackson83
  8. 8Elton John82
  9. 9Next81
  10. 10Shania Twain72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.