Artists · Global Music Power

Bobby Bland

Charting Jan 30, 1960 → Jan 4, 1975 · 178 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 178 wk

Image credits

Photo: Masahiro Sumori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 178 wk Global Music Power · 178 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 0.82%; week of Mar 16, 1963
Career Power: 55; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 18; September 1962 – August 1963
Peak Five Years: 44; February 1961 – February 1966
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 178; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.53%; week of Feb 16, 1963
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 Global Music Power

34 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Ain't Nothing You Can DoApple Music	#20	9	March 1964 – May 1964	8.2	7.2
Call On MeApple Music	#22	12	January 1963 – March 1963	6.7	7.1
Turn On Your Love LightApple Music	#28	10	December 1961 – February 1962	4.7	4.6
Stormy Monday BluesApple Music	#43	13	September 1962 – December 1962	4.0	4.1
That's The Way Love IsApple Music	#33	10	January 1963 – March 1963	3.9	5.0
Share Your Love With MeApple Music	#42	9	June 1964 – August 1964	3.3	3.2
Rockin' In The Same Old BoatApple Music	#58	10	November 1968 – January 1969	2.5	2.5
I Pity The FoolApple Music	#46	7	February 1961 – April 1961	2.3	2.2
Ain't Doing Too Bad (Part 1)	#49	6	October 1964 – November 1964	2.1	2.0
Sometimes You Gotta Cry A LittleApple Music	#56	6	July 1963 – August 1963	1.9	1.8
Yield Not To TemptationApple Music	#56	8	August 1962 – September 1962	1.7	1.7
These Hands (Small But Mighty)Apple Music	#63	8	August 1965 – October 1965	1.4	1.4
Chains Of LoveApple Music	#60	7	September 1969 – October 1969	1.4	1.4
I'm Too Far Gone (To Turn Around)Apple Music	#62	6	January 1966 – February 1966	1.3	1.3
Don't Cry No MoreApple Music	#71	7	August 1961 – October 1961	1.1	1.1
Do What You Set Out To DoApple Music	#64	5	February 1972 – March 1972	1.1	1.1
Good Time CharlieApple Music	#75	6	May 1966 – June 1966	0.9	0.8
Cry Cry CryApple Music	#71	5	November 1960 – December 1960	0.8	0.8
PovertyApple Music	#65	5	September 1966 – October 1966	0.8	0.8
I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)Apple Music	#88	7	November 1974 – January 1975	0.7	0.7
Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The CityApple Music	#91	7	August 1974 – September 1974	0.6	0.6
Who Will The Next Fool BeApple Music	#76	4	March 1962 – April 1962	0.6	0.6
Blind ManApple Music	#78	3	January 1965 – January 1965	0.5	0.5
Keep On Loving Me (You'll See The Change)	#89	3	December 1970 – December 1970	0.3	0.3
I'll Take Care Of YouApple Music	#89	3	January 1960 – February 1960	0.3	0.3
The Feeling Is GoneApple Music	#91	3	December 1963 – January 1964	0.3	0.3
Gotta Get To Know YouApple Music	#91	3	June 1969 – June 1969	0.3	0.3
Driftin' BluesApple Music	#96	3	March 1968 – March 1968	0.3	0.3
You're All I NeedApple Music	#88	2	April 1967 – April 1967	0.2	0.2
If You've Got A Heart	#96	2	February 1970 – February 1970	0.2	0.2
Ain't No Telling	#93	1	April 1965	0.1	0.1
I'm Sorry	#97	1	June 1971	0.1	0.1
Ain't That Loving You	#86	1	March 1962	0.1	0.1
Black Night	#99	1	January 1965	0.1	0.1

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

Bobby Bland's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from September 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.