Artists · Global Music Power
The Temptations
Charting Apr 23, 1960 → Apr 11, 1992 · 561 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 482 wk (4 at #1), UK Singles Chart 186 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
- 1.92%
- week of Nov 15, 1969
- Career Power
- 514
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 1
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 78
- August 1969 – August 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 293
- June 1966 – May 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 29
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 561
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.81%
- week of Oct 18, 1969
- Comebacks
- 1
- December 1972
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Oct 9, 1971 | Dec 9, 1972 | 61 | 11 | 1.91% | 1.12% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).