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Blue Swede portraitBlue Swede

Charting Feb 16, 1974Mar 22, 1975 · 37 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 37 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19742014

    First crown Apr 1974

Peak Power
2.05%
week of May 11, 1974
Career Power
55
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
53
November 1973 – November 1974
Peak Five Years
55
April 1970 – March 1975
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.55%
week of Apr 6, 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

4 records · 55 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
Hooked On A Feeling#11735.4
Never My Love#71116.7
Hush/I'm Alive#6151.8
Silly Milly#7141.1

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At their peak

1973 in music

Blue Swede's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1973 to November 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John118
  2. 2Gladys Knight And The Pips108
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John90
  4. 4Charlie Rich83
  5. 5Stevie Wonder83
  6. 6Ringo Starr80
  7. 7Jim Croce79
  8. 8Jim Stafford78
  9. 9Wings77
  10. 10John Denver77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.