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Steve Earle portraitSteve Earle

Charting Oct 8, 1988Sep 27, 2008 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 19 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
0.08%
week of Nov 12, 1988
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
January 1988 – January 1989
Peak Five Years
2
June 1985 – June 1990
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.24%
week of Nov 5, 1988
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

4 records · 2 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
Copperhead Road#4561.0
Johnny Come Lately#7560.4
The Galway Girlwith Sharon Shannon#6740.2
The Other Kind (Back Out on the Road Again)#8830.2

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At their peak

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

  1. 1George Michael99
  2. 2Michael Jackson94
  3. 3INXS86
  4. 4Rick Astley83
  5. 5Def Leppard78
  6. 6Taylor Dayne78
  7. 7Whitney Houston78
  8. 8Debbie Gibson73
  9. 9Kylie Minogue68
  10. 10Tiffany67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.