Artists · Global Music Power

The Robert Cray Band

Charting Feb 7, 1987 → Oct 29, 1988 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 26 wk, UK Singles Chart 5 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 26 wk UK Singles Chart · 5 wk Global Music Power · 28 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 Apr 25, 1987
Career Power: 10; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 10; July 1986 – July 1987
Peak Five Years: 10; November 1983 – October 1988
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 28; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.18%; week of Apr 18, 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

4 records · 10 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
Smoking GunApple Music	#22	14	February 1987 – May 1987	8.0	7.9
Don't Be Afraid Of The DarkApple Music	#74	6	September 1988 – October 1988	0.8	0.8
Right Next DoorApple Music	#50	5	June 1987 – July 1987	0.8	0.8
Right Next Door (Because Of Me)Apple Music	#80	6	May 1987 – June 1987	0.7	0.7

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At their peak

The Robert Cray Band's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from July 1986 to July 1987. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.