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Black Oak Arkansas portraitBlack Oak Arkansas

Charting Dec 15, 1973Jan 17, 1976 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.78%
week of Mar 2, 1974
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
March 1973 – March 1974
Peak Five Years
12
January 1971 – January 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.54%
week of Feb 16, 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

2 records · 12 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
Jim Dandy#251311.5
Strong Enough To Be Gentle#8920.3

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At their peak

1973 in music

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

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips121
  2. 2Jim Croce103
  3. 3Wings96
  4. 4Carpenters96
  5. 5Elton John93
  6. 6Stevie Wonder93
  7. 7Helen Reddy85
  8. 8Billy Preston75
  9. 9Barry White72
  10. 10Marvin Gaye71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.