Artists · Global Music Power

W.A.S.P.

Also credited as Wasp

Charting May 26, 1984 → Jun 10, 1995 · 53 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 53 wk

UK Singles Chart · 53 wk Global Music Power · 53 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: 0.19%; week of Jun 10, 1989
Career Power: 11; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 5; October 1988 – September 1989
Peak Five Years: 10; June 1987 – June 1992
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 53; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.63%; week of Mar 28, 1992
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

17 records · 11 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
Mean Man	#21	5	February 1989 – March 1989	1.8	1.8
The Real MeApple Music	#23	5	May 1989 – June 1989	1.7	1.7
Forever FreeApple Music	#25	5	September 1989 – October 1989	1.7	1.7
I Don't Need No Doctor	#31	5	October 1987 – November 1987	1.3	1.3
Scream Until You Like ItApple Music	#32	5	August 1987 – September 1987	1.2	1.2
Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)Apple Music	#17	2	March 1992 – April 1992	1.1	1.1
Sunset and Babylon	#38	2	October 1993 – October 1993	0.5	0.5
The Idol	#41	2	May 1992 – June 1992	0.4	0.4
Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) {1988}	#61	3	February 1988 – February 1988	0.3	0.3
Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)	#83	5	May 1984 – June 1984	0.3	0.3
95-Nasty	#70	3	September 1986 – October 1986	0.2	0.2
Wild Child	#71	2	May 1986 – June 1986	0.2	0.2
Blind in Texas	#77	3	October 1985 – November 1985	0.2	0.2
I Am One	#56	1	October 1992	0.2	0.2
I Wanna Be Somebody	#77	2	August 1984 – August 1984	0.1	0.1
School Daze	#81	2	November 1984 – November 1984	0.1	0.1
Black Forever/Goodbye America	#88	1	June 1995	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

W.A.S.P.'s best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from October 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.