Artists · Global Music Power
Whitney Houston
Charting Jun 9, 1984 → Jan 4, 2025 · 629 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 517 wk (39 at #1), UK Singles Chart 384 wk (17 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
- 4.28%
- week of Apr 24, 1993
- Career Power
- 814
- share-weeks
- Weeks at #1
- 40
- weeks as the top artist
- Peak Year
- 136
- November 1992 – October 1993
- Peak Five Years
- 291
- January 1984 – December 1988
- Top-five weeks
- 140
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 629
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.61%
- week of Feb 27, 1993
- Comebacks
- 4
- November 1990, December 1992, January 1996, March 1999
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After decline | Feb 11, 1989 | Nov 17, 1990 | 92 | 53 | 2.62% | 1.02% |
| After decline | Oct 19, 1991 | Dec 5, 1992 | 59 | 55 | 2.62% | 1.15% |
| After decline | Oct 9, 1993 | Jan 6, 1996 | 117 | 90 | 4.28% | 1.55% |
| After decline | Jun 14, 1997 | Mar 20, 1999 | 92 | 70 | 4.28% | 1.56% |
Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).