Artists · Global Music Power
Tears For Fears
Charting Sep 25, 1982 → Jan 6, 2024 · 246 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 115 wk (6 at #1), UK Singles Chart 190 wk
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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
- 2.60%
- week of Aug 10, 1985
- Career Power
- 190
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 96
- December 1984 – December 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 136
- August 1981 – July 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 23
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 246
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.39%
- week of Jun 22, 1985
- Comebacks
- 1
- October 1989
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Feb 22, 1986 | Oct 14, 1989 | 190 | 161 | 2.60% | 1.07% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).