Artists · Global Music Power
Sugarhill Gang
Charting Nov 10, 1979 → Jun 19, 2004 · 45 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 32 wk, UK Singles Chart 23 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
- 0.83%
- week of Jan 12, 1980
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 12
- February 1979 – February 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- October 1977 – September 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 45
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.57%
- week of Jan 5, 1980
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).