Artists · Global Music Power
The Kinks
Charting Aug 15, 1964 → Aug 18, 2012 · 314 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 212 wk, UK Singles Chart 216 wk (2 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
- 2.24%
- week of Feb 27, 1965
- Career Power
- 273
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 88
- September 1964 – September 1965
- Peak Five Years
- 179
- May 1964 – May 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 13
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 314
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.09%
- week of Feb 20, 1965
- Comebacks
- 2
- October 1970, July 1983
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 25, 1967 | Oct 17, 1970 | 190 | 33 | 2.24% | 1.00% |
| After absence | Apr 10, 1971 | Jul 23, 1983 | 641 | 246 | 2.24% | 1.09% |
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).