Artists · Global Music Power
Wire
Charting Jan 20, 1979 → May 20, 1989 · 9 weeks with chart power
Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 9 wk
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
- 0.04%
- week of Feb 3, 1979
- Career Power
- 1
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 0
- February 1978 – February 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 0
- February 1974 – February 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 0.19%
- week of Jan 20, 1979
- 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 · 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoor MinerApple Music | #51 | 3 | 0.5 | ||
| Eardrum BuzzApple Music | #68 | 4 | 0.3 | ||
| Kidney Bongos | #88 | 2 | 0.1 |
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At their peak
Wire's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from February 1978 to February 1979. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Bee Gees115
- 2Andy Gibb109
- 3Olivia Newton-John87
- 4Billy Joel80
- 5Barry Manilow79
- 6Donna Summer73
- 7Chic61
- 8Foreigner60
- 9Gerry Rafferty58
- 10Eric Clapton58
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.