Artists · Global Music Power
The Meters
Charting Feb 8, 1969 → Oct 8, 1977 · 49 weeks with chart power
Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 49 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
- 0.55%
- week of Jun 7, 1969
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- February 1969 – February 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 16
- August 1965 – July 1970
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 49
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.13%
- week of Jun 7, 1969
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →
Songs on the Global Music Power
7 records · 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cissy StrutApple Music | #23 | 11 | 6.3 | ||
| Sophisticated CissyApple Music | #34 | 8 | 3.7 | ||
| Chicken StrutApple Music | #50 | 8 | 2.4 | ||
| Look-Ka Py PyApple Music | #56 | 10 | 2.3 | ||
| Ease BackApple Music | #61 | 6 | 1.2 | ||
| Hand Clapping SongApple Music | #89 | 4 | 0.4 | ||
| Be My LadyApple Music | #78 | 2 | 0.3 |
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At their peak
The Meters's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from February 1969 to February 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Creedence Clearwater Revival118
- 2Elvis Presley93
- 3The Beatles83
- 4The 5th Dimension79
- 5The Temptations77
- 6Marvin Gaye71
- 7Stevie Wonder67
- 8Three Dog Night66
- 9Blood, Sweat & Tears65
- 10The Archies65
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.