Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bobbie Gentry

Charting Aug 5, 1967 → Aug 21, 1976 · 71 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 71 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 39 wk (2 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Capitol Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
First crown Sep 1967
UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
19671976
Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct 1969) · First crown Oct 1969

Billboard Hot 100 · 71 wk UK Singles Chart · 39 wk Global Music Power · 86 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.25%; week of Oct 21, 1967
Career Power: 62; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 39; April 1967 – April 1968
Peak Five Years: 59; August 1965 – August 1970
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 71; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.56%; week of Aug 26, 1967
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 · 62 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
Ode To Billie JoeApple Music	#1August 1967	20	August 1967 – August 1976	39.2	38.9
FancyApple Music	#31February 1970	14	November 1969 – February 1970	10.1	10.1
All I Have To Do Is Dreamwith Glen CampbellApple Music	#27April 1970	10	February 1970 – April 1970	4.7	9.6
Let It Be Mewith Glen CampbellApple Music	#36March 1969	9	January 1969 – March 1969	2.3	4.6
Okolona River Bottom BandApple Music	#54December 1967	4	November 1967 – December 1967	1.8	1.8
He Made A Woman Out Of MeApple Music	#71May 1970	5	April 1970 – May 1970	1.3	1.4
Apartment 21Apple Music	#81July 1970	6	July 1970 – August 1970	1.3	1.3
Ode To Billy Joe - Main TitleApple Music	#65August 1976	4	July 1976 – August 1976	0.9	1.3
Mornin' Glorywith Glen CampbellApple Music	#74November 1968	6	October 1968 – November 1968	0.7	1.3
Louisiana Man	#100April 1968	1	April 1968	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1967 in music →

Bobbie Gentry's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1967 to April 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.