Artists · Global Music Power

The Independents

Charting May 13, 1972 → Oct 25, 2014 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 34 wk, UK Singles Chart 1 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 34 wk UK Singles Chart · 1 wk Global Music Power · 35 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · 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, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.69%; week of Jun 23, 1973
Career Power: 16; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 14; December 1972 – December 1973
Peak Five Years: 15; December 1969 – December 1974
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 35; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.21%; week of Jun 2, 1973
Comebacks: 0; none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Global Music Power

6 records · 16 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Leaving MeApple Music	#21	13	April 1973 – June 1973	10.3	10.3
Baby I've Been Missing YouApple Music	#41	8	July 1973 – September 1973	3.2	3.2
It's All OverApple Music	#65	4	November 1973 – December 1973	0.8	0.8
Just As Long As You Need Me, Part I	#84	5	May 1972 – June 1972	0.6	0.6
Let This Be A Lesson To YouApple Music	#88	4	November 1974 – December 1974	0.4	0.4
Ukip Calypso	#44	1	October 2014	0.3	0.2

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At their peak

The Independents's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from December 1972 to December 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.