Artists · Global Music Power
The Cars
Charting Jun 17, 1978 → Feb 20, 1988 · 234 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 212 wk, UK Singles Chart 61 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
- 2.24%
- week of Oct 27, 1984
- Career Power
- 210
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 78
- March 1984 – March 1985
- Peak Five Years
- 147
- April 1981 – April 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 234
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.26%
- week of Oct 6, 1984
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1984
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Jul 24, 1982 | May 12, 1984 | 94 | 85 | 1.55% | 1.02% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).