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.
Leader of every year
Column height = the leader's average Power Share over the period. Click a column to explore that range.
- Elvis Presley5 periods
- Ed Sheeran4 periods
- Madonna3 periods
- Frankie Laine2 periods
- T. Rex2 periods
- ABBA2 periods
- Madness2 periods
- Rihanna2 periods
- Drake2 periods
- Bing Crosby1 period
- Ruby Murray1 period
- Bill Haley And His Comets1 period
- Russ Conway1 period
- Adam Faith1 period
- The Beatles1 period
- Jim Reeves1 period
- The Seekers1 period
- The Beach Boys1 period
- Engelbert Humperdinck1 period
- Tom Jones1 period
- Fleetwood Mac1 period
- Gary Glitter1 period
- The Wombles1 period
- Mud1 period
- David Soul1 period
- Boney M1 period
- Adam & the Ants1 period
- Michael Jackson1 period
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood1 period
- Kylie Minogue1 period
- Jason Donovan1 period
- New Kids On The Block1 period
- Bryan Adams1 period
- Shakespears Sister1 period
- 2 Unlimited1 period
- Wet Wet Wet1 period
- Oasis1 period
- Fugees1 period
- Spice Girls1 period
- All Saints1 period
- Steps1 period
- S Club 71 period
- Atomic Kitten1 period
- Gareth Gates1 period
- Busted1 period
- Kelis1 period
- Gorillaz1 period
- Kooks1 period
- MIKA1 period
- Lady Gaga1 period
- Adele1 period
- Flo Rida1 period
- One Direction1 period
- Sam Smith1 period
- Lewis Capaldi1 period
- Dua Lipa1 period
- Taylor Swift1 period
- Sabrina Carpenter1 period
- Alex Warren1 period
Leaders in 2007
Jan 7, 2007 → Dec 30, 2007 · 52 chart weeks · ranked by Era Power — Sum of weekly Power Share over the range (share-weeks).
- 1MIKA129
- 2Take That118
- 3Rihanna95
- 4Akon91
- 5Amy Winehouse83
- 6Fergie81
- 7Avril Lavigne77
- 8The Fray76
- 9Justin Timberlake73
- 10Hoosiers70
| # | Artist | Era Power | Average share | Peak share | Peak smoothed | Weeks at #1 | Top-five weeks | Weeks charting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIKA | 129 | 2.48% | 4.23% | 3.07% | 6 | 23 | 51 |
| 2 | Take That | 118 | 2.26% | 5.21% | 3.60% | 9 | 18 | 51 |
| 3 | Rihanna | 95 | 1.82% | 4.15% | 3.04% | 6 | 11 | 33 |
| 4 | Akon | 91 | 1.75% | 3.96% | 2.84% | 1 | 7 | 48 |
| 5 | Amy Winehouse | 83 | 1.60% | 3.27% | 1.99% | 0 | 1 | 52 |
| 6 | Fergie | 81 | 1.55% | 3.97% | 2.52% | 2 | 6 | 44 |
| 7 | Avril Lavigne | 77 | 1.48% | 3.74% | 2.65% | 3 | 11 | 40 |
| 8 | The Fray | 76 | 1.46% | 3.31% | 2.44% | 0 | 6 | 45 |
| 9 | Justin Timberlake | 73 | 1.40% | 3.73% | 2.54% | 0 | 3 | 42 |
| 10 | Hoosiers | 70 | 1.34% | 4.03% | 2.45% | 2 | 7 | 28 |
| 11 | Timbaland | 69 | 1.32% | 3.52% | 2.35% | 0 | 1 | 48 |
| 12 | Nelly Furtado | 64 | 1.24% | 3.35% | 2.63% | 0 | 3 | 44 |
| 13 | Mark Ronson | 63 | 1.21% | 2.81% | 1.92% | 0 | 1 | 39 |
| 14 | Kaiser Chiefs | 62 | 1.19% | 3.85% | 2.17% | 0 | 7 | 36 |
| 15 | Gym Class Heroes | 61 | 1.18% | 3.49% | 2.25% | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| 16 | Snow Patrol | 61 | 1.18% | 3.71% | 2.13% | 1 | 3 | 52 |
| 17 | Leona Lewis | 58 | 1.11% | 4.44% | 2.61% | 7 | 12 | 21 |
| 18 | Beyonce | 56 | 1.08% | 2.86% | 2.27% | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| 19 | Sugababes | 55 | 1.05% | 4.09% | 2.76% | 3 | 10 | 22 |
| 20 | Kate Nash | 54 | 1.04% | 3.51% | 2.25% | 1 | 8 | 27 |
| 21 | Booty Luv | 53 | 1.02% | 3.13% | 2.05% | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| 22 | Gwen Stefani | 52 | 0.99% | 2.52% | 1.98% | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| 23 | Cascada | 52 | 0.99% | 3.61% | 2.50% | 0 | 2 | 29 |
| 24 | Enrique Iglesias | 52 | 0.99% | 3.57% | 2.17% | 0 | 6 | 23 |
| 25 | Kanye West | 51 | 0.98% | 4.08% | 2.36% | 2 | 10 | 22 |
| 26 | Plain White T's | 50 | 0.97% | 3.48% | 2.33% | 0 | 7 | 22 |
| 27 | Calvin Harris | 50 | 0.97% | 3.91% | 2.10% | 2 | 5 | 28 |
| 28 | Fall Out Boy | 48 | 0.92% | 3.56% | 1.87% | 0 | 3 | 31 |
| 29 | Girls Aloud | 48 | 0.92% | 3.62% | 2.33% | 0 | 5 | 28 |
| 30 | My Chemical Romance | 46 | 0.88% | 3.46% | 1.87% | 0 | 1 | 39 |
| 31 | Elvis Presley | 43 | 0.83% | 4.39% | 2.09% | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| 32 | Arctic Monkeys | 43 | 0.82% | 3.67% | 1.60% | 1 | 3 | 33 |
| 33 | Just Jack | 41 | 0.80% | 3.54% | 1.95% | 0 | 5 | 25 |
| 34 | Sean Kingston | 41 | 0.78% | 3.63% | 2.06% | 0 | 7 | 17 |
| 35 | Scouting for Girls | 40 | 0.77% | 2.93% | 1.69% | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 36 | Shayne Ward | 40 | 0.77% | 4.11% | 2.23% | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 37 | Linkin Park | 37 | 0.71% | 3.12% | 1.52% | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| 38 | The Klaxons | 37 | 0.71% | 2.97% | 1.30% | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 39 | Natasha Bedingfield | 36 | 0.69% | 3.03% | 1.54% | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| 40 | Maroon 5 | 36 | 0.68% | 3.50% | 1.57% | 1 | 4 | 28 |
| 41 | JoJo | 35 | 0.67% | 3.31% | 1.72% | 0 | 1 | 22 |
| 42 | Gossip | 34 | 0.66% | 2.99% | 1.54% | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| 43 | Ne-Yo | 34 | 0.65% | 3.29% | 1.64% | 0 | 2 | 30 |
| 44 | Reverend & the Makers | 33 | 0.64% | 2.83% | 1.41% | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 45 | Bloc Party | 32 | 0.63% | 3.33% | 1.03% | 0 | 1 | 22 |
| 46 | Foo Fighters | 32 | 0.62% | 2.91% | 1.39% | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 47 | Hellogoodbye | 32 | 0.62% | 3.26% | 1.70% | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| 48 | Timbaland Pts One Republic | 32 | 0.62% | 3.49% | 2.19% | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 49 | Shakira | 32 | 0.61% | 1.88% | 1.33% | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 50 | Newton Faulkner | 31 | 0.60% | 3.13% | 1.42% | 0 | 2 | 23 |