Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Billy Preston

Charting May 10, 1969 → Oct 9, 1982 · 173 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 173 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 43 wk

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Image credits

Photo: David Hume Kennerly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
19691982
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 1973) · First crown Jul 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 173 wk UK Singles Chart · 43 wk Global Music Power · 180 wk

Peak Power: 2.25%; week of Aug 4, 1973
Career Power: 203; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 75; March 1973 – February 1974
Peak Five Years: 161; November 1970 – October 1975
Top-five weeks: 20; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 173; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.54%; week of Jul 14, 1973
Comebacks: 2; Jun 1972 · May 1980, after 5 quiet years

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

17 records · 203 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
Will It Go Round In CirclesApple Music	#1July 1973	22	March 1973 – August 1973	38.8	38.7
Nothing From NothingApple Music	#1October 1974	18	July 1974 – November 1974	35.6	35.4
Space RaceApple Music	#4November 1973	18	September 1973 – January 1974	32.4	32.2
Outa-SpaceApple Music	#2July 1972	17	April 1972 – August 1972	31.8	31.8
With You I'm Born Againwith SyreetaApple Music	#4April 1980	29	December 1979 – June 1980	18.3	36.2
Get Backwith The BeatlesApple Music	#1May 1969	12	May 1969 – July 1969	18.0	35.6
StruttinApple Music	#22January 1975	10	December 1974 – February 1975	9.7	9.6
That's The Way God Planned ItApple Music	#62August 1969	16	August 1969 – September 1972	4.2	4.5
SlaughterApple Music	#50October 1972	8	September 1972 – October 1972	3.8	3.9
You're So UniqueApple Music	#48February 1974	8	January 1974 – February 1974	3.7	3.8
One More Time For Lovewith SyreetaApple Music	#52July 1980	10	June 1980 – August 1980	1.8	3.6
Don't Let Me Downwith The BeatlesApple Music	#35May 1969	4	May 1969 – May 1969	1.3	3.9
I Wrote A Simple SongApple Music	#77February 1972	5	January 1972 – February 1972	1.1	1.1
Fancy LadyApple Music	#71October 1975	4	October 1975 – October 1975	1.1	1.1
I'm Never Gonna Say GoodbyeApple Music	#88October 1982	3	September 1982 – October 1982	0.5	0.5
My Sweet LordApple Music	#90February 1971	3	February 1971 – February 1971	0.4	0.4
Get BackApple Music	#86October 1978	2	October 1978 – November 1978	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1973 in music →

Billy Preston's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1973 to February 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.