Artists · Global Music Power
The Police
Charting Sep 30, 1978 → Sep 2, 2000 · 209 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 145 wk (10 at #1), UK Singles Chart 131 wk (14 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
- 2.68%
- week of Oct 15, 1983
- Career Power
- 252
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 11
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 101
- April 1983 – April 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 243
- April 1979 – March 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 31
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 209
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.52%
- week of Jul 23, 1983
- Comebacks
- 1
- June 1983
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Jun 26, 1982 | Jun 25, 1983 | 52 | 47 | 2.04% | 1.08% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).