Artists · Global Music Power
UB40
Charting Mar 1, 1980 → Jul 13, 2013 · 425 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 151 wk (1 at #1), UK Singles Chart 347 wk (7 at #1)
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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
- 2.65%
- week of Sep 18, 1993
- Career Power
- 287
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 3
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 72
- April 1993 – April 1994
- Peak Five Years
- 140
- April 1989 – April 1994
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 425
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.56%
- week of Aug 14, 1993
- Comebacks
- 2
- December 1990, June 1993
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Mar 4, 1989 | Dec 1, 1990 | 91 | 18 | 1.48% | 1.04% |
| After decline | Oct 26, 1991 | Jun 26, 1993 | 87 | 48 | 1.48% | 1.10% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).