Artists · Global Music Power
Walter Murphy
Charting May 29, 1976 → Sep 25, 1982 · 43 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 43 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 9 wk
Honours
Billboard Hot 100
- Artist of the Week
- 1 crownFirst crown: Oct 9, 1976
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, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.
- Peak Power
- 1.84%
- week of Oct 30, 1976
- Career Power
- 45
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- January 1976 – January 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 43
- January 1972 – January 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 43
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.44%
- week of Oct 9, 1976
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →
Songs on the Global Music Power
3 records · 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Fifth of BeethovenApple Music | #1#28 | 289 | 39.3 | ||
| Flight '76Apple Music | #44 | 10 | 3.5 | ||
| Themes From E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) | #47 | 9 | 2.5 |
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At their peak
Walter Murphy's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from January 1976 to January 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1ABBA73
- 2Captain & Tennille72
- 3Bee Gees71
- 4Wings67
- 5Queen63
- 6Dr. Hook61
- 7Peter Frampton59
- 8Rod Stewart57
- 9Gary Wright56
- 10Diana Ross56
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.