Artists · Global Music Power
Simple Minds
Charting May 5, 1979 → Sep 10, 2005 · 241 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 78 wk, UK Singles Chart 220 wk (3 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
- 1.94%
- week of Jun 8, 1985
- Career Power
- 156
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 79
- April 1985 – April 1986
- Peak Five Years
- 115
- January 1982 – January 1987
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 241
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.18%
- week of May 18, 1985
- 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).