Artists · Global Music Power
The Shirelles
Charting Jul 18, 1959 → Aug 26, 1967 · 171 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 171 wk (9 at #1), UK Singles Chart 29 wk
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
- 2.92%
- week of Apr 15, 1961
- Career Power
- 185
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 6
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 85
- December 1960 – December 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 184
- January 1960 – January 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 22
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 171
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.43%
- week of Feb 25, 1961
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).