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Al Green portraitAl Green

Charting Nov 21, 1970 → Feb 25, 1989 · 221 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 221 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 72 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Year

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    First crown Feb 1972

  • Global Music Power

    1 crown

    19701994

    First crown Aug 1972

Peak Power
2.65%
week of Mar 4, 1972
Career Power
300
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
114
September 1971 – September 1972
Peak Five Years
278
January 1971 – January 1976
Top-five weeks
18
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
221
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of Feb 12, 1972
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

19 records · 300 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
Let's Stay Together#11639.7
Tired Of Being Alone#111930.2
You Ought To Be With Me#31530.1
I'm Still In Love With You#31227.2
Look What You Done For Me#41227.1
Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)#71926.2
Here I Am Come & Take Me#101524.9
Call Me (Come Back Home)#101118.9
L-O-V-E (Love)#131217.2
Livin' For You#191113.7
Put A Little Love In Your Heartwith Annie Lennox#91711.0
Full Of Fire#28119.1
Let's Get Married#32118.0
Keep Me Cryin#37148.0
Oh Me, Oh My (Dreams In My Arms)#4862.8
I Can't Get Next To You#60102.7
Guilty#6971.5
Hot Wire#7151.1
Belle#8350.8

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At their peak

1971 in music →

Al Green's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1971 to September 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Al Green114
  2. 2Carpenters92
  3. 3Donny Osmond86
  4. 4Michael Jackson85
  5. 5Bread83
  6. 6Three Dog Night75
  7. 7The Stylistics74
  8. 8The Chi-lites74
  9. 9The Osmonds73
  10. 10Cher71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.