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Big Brother And The Holding Company portraitBig Brother And The Holding Company

Charting Aug 31, 1968Dec 7, 1968 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk

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Peak Power
1.44%
week of Nov 9, 1968
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
December 1967 – December 1968
Peak Five Years
21
December 1963 – December 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.66%
week of Oct 19, 1968
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

3 records · 21 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
Piece Of My Heart#121217.8
Down On Me#4383.0
Coo Coo#8430.6

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At their peak

1967 in music

Big Brother And The Holding Company's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1967 to December 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin128
  2. 2The Beatles114
  3. 3Dionne Warwick76
  4. 4The Young Rascals76
  5. 5The Monkees62
  6. 6Otis Redding60
  7. 71910 Fruitgum Co.60
  8. 8The Temptations59
  9. 9Smokey Robinson & The Miracles58
  10. 10Cream57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.