Eras
Who was the most powerful artist in a year, who dominated a decade, who held #1 the longest. Every figure is a defined metric summed or maximised over a date range of stored weekly rows — nothing is weighted by opinion.
Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Aug 1, 2025 · 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 Aug 1, 2025; 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.
Leader of every year
Column height = the leader's average Power Share over the period. Click a column to explore that range.
- The Beatles4 periods
- Madonna3 periods
- Frankie Laine2 periods
- Elvis Presley2 periods
- Michael Jackson2 periods
- Elton John2 periods
- Bee Gees2 periods
- TLC2 periods
- Destiny's Child2 periods
- Bruno Mars2 periods
- The Weeknd2 periods
- Drake2 periods
- Bing Crosby1 period
- Ruby Murray1 period
- Bill Haley And His Comets1 period
- The Everly Brothers1 period
- Paul Anka1 period
- Connie Francis1 period
- Chubby Checker1 period
- Roy Orbison1 period
- The Monkees1 period
- Creedence Clearwater Revival1 period
- Jackson 51 period
- Carpenters1 period
- Eagles1 period
- Fleetwood Mac1 period
- Donna Summer1 period
- Queen1 period
- Daryl Hall John Oates1 period
- John Cougar1 period
- Lionel Richie1 period
- George Michael1 period
- Bobby Brown1 period
- Janet Jackson1 period
- Mariah Carey1 period
- Boyz II Men1 period
- Whitney Houston1 period
- Ace Of Base1 period
- Celine Dion1 period
- Spice Girls1 period
- Savage Garden1 period
- Ashanti1 period
- 50 Cent1 period
- Usher1 period
- Kelly Clarkson1 period
- Chris Brown1 period
- Fergie1 period
- Rihanna1 period
- Lady Gaga1 period
- Ke$ha1 period
- Flo Rida1 period
- Sam Smith1 period
- Ed Sheeran1 period
- Post Malone1 period
- Olivia Rodrigo1 period
- Harry Styles1 period
- Taylor Swift1 period
- Sabrina Carpenter1 period
- Morgan Wallen1 period
- Ella Langley1 period
Leaders in 2020
Jan 4, 2020 → Dec 26, 2020 · 52 chart weeks · ranked by Era Power — Sum of weekly Power Share over the range (share-weeks).
- 1The Weeknd184
- 2Dua Lipa162
- 3Harry Styles157
- 4Roddy Ricch135
- 5Lewis Capaldi124
- 6Drake119
- 7Justin Bieber116
- 8DaBaby114
- 9Post Malone95
- 10Megan Thee Stallion95
| # | Artist | Era Power | Average share | Peak share | Peak smoothed | Weeks at #1 | Top-five weeks | Weeks charting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Weeknd | 184 | 3.54% | 8.03% | 4.49% | 9 | 43 | 52 |
| 2 | Dua Lipa | 162 | 3.12% | 5.45% | 3.94% | 2 | 26 | 52 |
| 3 | Harry Styles | 157 | 3.01% | 4.94% | 3.97% | 12 | 28 | 52 |
| 4 | Roddy Ricch | 135 | 2.60% | 5.04% | 3.86% | 6 | 23 | 52 |
| 5 | Lewis Capaldi | 124 | 2.38% | 4.50% | 4.00% | 2 | 13 | 50 |
| 6 | Drake | 119 | 2.29% | 6.31% | 3.25% | 4 | 18 | 52 |
| 7 | Justin Bieber | 116 | 2.24% | 4.62% | 2.76% | 0 | 11 | 52 |
| 8 | DaBaby | 114 | 2.19% | 3.27% | 2.71% | 0 | 4 | 52 |
| 9 | Post Malone | 95 | 1.83% | 3.54% | 3.69% | 0 | 3 | 50 |
| 10 | Megan Thee Stallion | 95 | 1.82% | 3.77% | 2.88% | 0 | 12 | 47 |
| 11 | Billie Eilish | 90 | 1.72% | 5.32% | 3.72% | 1 | 12 | 45 |
| 12 | Pop Smoke | 85 | 1.63% | 4.70% | 3.02% | 5 | 17 | 48 |
| 13 | SAINt JHN | 77 | 1.49% | 2.88% | 2.37% | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| 14 | Ariana Grande | 71 | 1.36% | 6.63% | 3.40% | 6 | 8 | 33 |
| 15 | Doja Cat | 66 | 1.28% | 3.39% | 2.38% | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| 16 | Juice WRLD | 61 | 1.18% | 7.63% | 2.04% | 1 | 3 | 52 |
| 17 | Lil Baby | 61 | 1.17% | 3.42% | 1.68% | 0 | 2 | 52 |
| 18 | Maroon 5 | 59 | 1.13% | 3.32% | 2.61% | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| 19 | Future | 57 | 1.10% | 2.62% | 1.73% | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| 20 | BTS | 55 | 1.06% | 6.02% | 2.58% | 1 | 12 | 23 |
| 21 | Maren Morris | 53 | 1.02% | 1.78% | 1.57% | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| 22 | Lil Mosey | 52 | 1.00% | 2.40% | 1.91% | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| 23 | Gabby Barrett | 50 | 0.96% | 1.69% | 1.42% | 0 | 0 | 51 |
| 24 | Morgan Wallen | 49 | 0.95% | 2.85% | 1.45% | 0 | 1 | 47 |
| 25 | Jack Harlow | 49 | 0.94% | 2.56% | 1.60% | 0 | 0 | 45 |
| 26 | 24kGoldn | 47 | 0.90% | 2.73% | 2.01% | 0 | 1 | 32 |
| 27 | Arizona Zervas | 46 | 0.88% | 3.36% | 2.45% | 0 | 2 | 20 |
| 28 | Chris Brown | 43 | 0.82% | 1.47% | 1.54% | 0 | 0 | 51 |
| 29 | Trevor Daniel | 41 | 0.79% | 1.73% | 1.28% | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| 30 | Jason Derulo | 40 | 0.77% | 2.42% | 1.67% | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 31 | Lady Gaga | 38 | 0.73% | 3.14% | 1.31% | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| 32 | Cardi B | 38 | 0.73% | 2.63% | 1.76% | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 33 | Young Thug | 37 | 0.72% | 1.51% | 1.08% | 0 | 0 | 51 |
| 34 | blackbear | 37 | 0.71% | 1.96% | 1.47% | 0 | 0 | 48 |
| 35 | Luke Combs | 36 | 0.69% | 3.52% | 1.25% | 0 | 1 | 48 |
| 36 | Taylor Swift | 33 | 0.64% | 8.09% | 1.54% | 2 | 3 | 29 |
| 37 | Halsey | 33 | 0.64% | 1.99% | 1.48% | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| 38 | Selena Gomez | 33 | 0.63% | 3.61% | 2.38% | 0 | 1 | 32 |
| 39 | Jawsh 685 | 31 | 0.60% | 1.69% | 1.22% | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 40 | Travi$ Scott | 31 | 0.59% | 2.65% | 1.80% | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| 41 | Camila Cabello | 31 | 0.59% | 1.72% | 1.57% | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 42 | Powfu | 29 | 0.56% | 1.52% | 1.07% | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| 43 | Miley Cyrus | 28 | 0.54% | 2.30% | 1.35% | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 44 | Ava Max | 28 | 0.53% | 1.72% | 1.10% | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| 45 | Jonas Brothers | 27 | 0.53% | 2.80% | 1.95% | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| 46 | Joel Corry | 27 | 0.52% | 1.05% | 0.77% | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| 47 | DJ Khaled | 27 | 0.52% | 3.55% | 1.45% | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| 48 | Lizzo | 26 | 0.50% | 3.30% | 3.57% | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 49 | Little Mix | 25 | 0.49% | 1.56% | 0.85% | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| 50 | StaySolidRocky | 24 | 0.47% | 2.02% | 1.28% | 0 | 0 | 20 |