Artists · Global Music Power
The Cure
Charting Apr 5, 1980 → Apr 28, 2012 · 251 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 128 wk, UK Singles Chart 161 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
- 1.39%
- week of Oct 28, 1989
- Career Power
- 120
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 31
- April 1989 – April 1990
- Peak Five Years
- 77
- October 1987 – October 1992
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 251
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Oct 21, 1989
- Comebacks
- 1
- July 1992
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 17, 1990 | Jul 25, 1992 | 127 | 58 | 1.39% | 1.00% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).