Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Charting Dec 1, 1973 → Oct 16, 1976 · 101 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 101 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Håkan Henriksson ( Narking ), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
First crown Nov 1974
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19731976
Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov–Dec 1974) · First crown Nov 1974

Billboard Hot 100 · 101 wk UK Singles Chart · 17 wk Global Music Power · 101 wk

Peak Power: 2.12%; week of Dec 14, 1974
Career Power: 107; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 78; March 1974 – March 1975
Peak Five Years: 107; October 1971 – October 1976
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 101; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.52%; week of Nov 9, 1974
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

10 records · 107 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet/Free WheelinApple Music	#1November 1974	17	September 1974 – January 1975	31.2	31.3
Takin' Care Of BusinessApple Music	#12August 1974	20	May 1974 – September 1974	21.3	21.4
Let It RideApple Music	#23April 1974	15	February 1974 – June 1974	14.8	14.7
Roll On Down The HighwayApple Music	#14March 1975	11	January 1975 – March 1975	14.0	14.0
Hey YouApple Music	#21July 1975	12	May 1975 – August 1975	12.1	12.1
Take It Like A ManApple Music	#33March 1976	7	February 1976 – March 1976	5.9	5.8
Down To The LineApple Music	#43January 1976	7	December 1975 – January 1976	3.5	3.5
Lookin' Out For #1Apple Music	#65May 1976	6	April 1976 – May 1976	1.8	1.8
Blue CollarApple Music	#68December 1973	6	December 1973 – January 1974	1.6	1.6
Gimme Your Money PleaseApple Music	#70October 1976	5	September 1976 – October 1976	1.2	1.2

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At their peak

1974 in music →

Bachman-Turner Overdrive's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1974 to March 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.