Artists · Global Music Power
The Boomtown Rats
Charting Aug 20, 1977 → Jul 9, 1994 · 129 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 5 wk, UK Singles Chart 129 wk (4 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
- 0.75%
- week of Dec 2, 1978
- Career Power
- 67
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 24
- December 1977 – December 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 65
- May 1977 – May 1982
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 129
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.14%
- week of Feb 9, 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).