Artists · Global Music Power
The Who
Charting Feb 20, 1965 → Aug 18, 2012 · 371 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 230 wk, UK Singles Chart 243 wk (2 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
- 1.39%
- week of Dec 16, 1967
- Career Power
- 272
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 40
- December 1966 – December 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 127
- January 1967 – December 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 371
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.61%
- week of Nov 25, 1967
- Comebacks
- 4
- May 1969, September 1971, February 1976, November 1978
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Mar 23, 1968 | May 24, 1969 | 61 | 15 | 1.39% | 1.11% |
| After decline | Oct 4, 1969 | Sep 11, 1971 | 101 | 27 | 1.39% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Mar 11, 1972 | Feb 21, 1976 | 206 | 92 | 1.39% | 1.06% |
| After decline | May 29, 1976 | Nov 11, 1978 | 128 | 83 | 1.39% | 1.04% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026). How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).