Artists · Global Music Power

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Charting Feb 23, 1985 → May 30, 1998 · 66 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 2 wk, UK Singles Chart 66 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 2 wk UK Singles Chart · 66 wk Global Music Power · 66 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: 0.26%; week of May 23, 1987
Career Power: 19; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 7; April 1987 – April 1988
Peak Five Years: 12; December 1984 – November 1989
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 66; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.86%; week of May 2, 1987
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

20 records · 19 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
April SkiesApple Music	#8	7	April 1987 – June 1987	3.3	3.3
Some Candy TalkingApple Music	#13	5	July 1986 – August 1986	2.4	2.4
Happy When It RainsApple Music	#25	5	August 1987 – September 1987	1.7	1.7
ReverenceApple Music	#10	4	February 1992 – March 1992	1.7	1.7
DarklandsApple Music	#33	5	November 1987 – December 1987	1.2	1.2
Sometimes AlwaysApple Music	#96#22	23	July 1994 – October 1994	1.2	1.1
SidewalkingApple Music	#30	3	April 1988 – April 1988	1.0	1.0
Far Gone and OutApple Music	#23	3	March 1992 – March 1992	1.0	1.0
Never UnderstandApple Music	#47	6	February 1985 – March 1985	0.9	0.9
Blues from a GunApple Music	#32	2	September 1989 – September 1989	0.6	0.6
Sound of Speed (Ep)	#30	2	July 1993 – July 1993	0.6	0.6
Just Like HoneyApple Music	#45	3	October 1985 – October 1985	0.6	0.6
Cracking UpApple Music	#35	2	April 1998 – April 1998	0.5	0.5
RollercoasterApple Music	#46	2	September 1990 – September 1990	0.4	0.4
You Trip Me UpApple Music	#55	3	June 1985 – June 1985	0.4	0.4
Almost GoldApple Music	#41	2	June 1992 – July 1992	0.4	0.4
Iloverocknroll	#38	2	May 1998 – May 1998	0.4	0.4
Head OnApple Music	#57	3	November 1989 – November 1989	0.4	0.4
Come OnApple Music	#52	2	October 1994 – October 1994	0.3	0.3
I Hate Rock 'N' RollApple Music	#61	2	June 1995 – June 1995	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

The Jesus and Mary Chain's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from April 1987 to April 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.