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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Charting Nov 17, 1973Apr 6, 1974 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 19 wk

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Peak Power
0.48%
week of Jan 26, 1974
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
April 1973 – April 1974
Peak Five Years
9
April 1969 – April 1974
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.86%
week of Jan 5, 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 · 9 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
This Time I'm Gone For Good#42137.5
Goin' Down Slow#6961.5

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At their peak

1973 in music

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

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips117
  2. 2Wings107
  3. 3Jim Croce105
  4. 4Elton John101
  5. 5Stevie Wonder90
  6. 6Carpenters86
  7. 7Helen Reddy83
  8. 8Charlie Rich81
  9. 9Billy Preston75
  10. 10Eddie Kendricks74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.