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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Afrique

Charting Jun 9, 1973Aug 4, 1973 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.33%
week of Aug 4, 1973
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
August 1972 – August 1973
Peak Five Years
4
August 1968 – August 1973
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.72%
week of Jul 14, 1973
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

1 song · 4 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
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At their peak

1972 in music

Afrique's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1972 to August 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John88
  2. 2Gilbert O'Sullivan86
  3. 3The Spinners78
  4. 4Al Green77
  5. 5Stevie Wonder68
  6. 6The O'Jays68
  7. 7Three Dog Night66
  8. 8Jim Croce66
  9. 9Lobo66
  10. 10Carpenters65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.