Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Booker T. & The MG's

Charting Aug 11, 1962 → Jul 24, 1971 · 146 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 146 wk, UK Singles Chart 41 wk

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Photo: Stax Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 146 wk UK Singles Chart · 41 wk Global Music Power · 163 wk

Peak Power: 1.87%; week of May 31, 1969
Career Power: 132; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 65; July 1968 – July 1969
Peak Five Years: 97; August 1966 – July 1971
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 146; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.32%; week of Sep 29, 1962
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1967, after 5 quiet years

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

17 records · 132 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
Green OnionsApple Music	#3September 1962	16	August 1962 – November 1962	29.7	29.3
Hang 'Em HighApple Music	#9February 1969	18	November 1968 – March 1969	24.6	24.3
Time Is TightApple Music	#6May 1969	13	March 1969 – June 1969	22.3	22.2
Soul-LimboApple Music	#17August 1968	10	July 1968 – September 1968	14.2	14.1
GroovinApple Music	#21September 1967	12	August 1967 – October 1967	13.3	13.3
Hip Hug-HerApple Music	#37June 1967	13	March 1967 – June 1967	8.0	7.9
Melting PotApple Music	#45May 1971	16	March 1971 – July 1971	5.5	5.5
Mrs. RobinsonApple Music	#37July 1969	8	June 1969 – July 1969	5.3	5.3
Boot-LegApple Music	#58July 1965	10	June 1965 – August 1965	3.2	3.2
Chinese CheckersApple Music	#78September 1963	7	July 1963 – September 1963	1.2	1.2
Slim Jenkin's Place	#70August 1967	5	July 1967 – August 1967	1.1	1.4
My Sweet PotatoApple Music	#85October 1966	5	September 1966 – October 1966	0.9	0.9
JellybreadApple Music	#82January 1963	5	December 1962 – January 1963	0.9	0.9
SomethingApple Music	#76August 1970	4	July 1970 – August 1970	0.8	0.8
Slum BabyApple Music	#88October 1969	4	September 1969 – October 1969	0.6	0.6
Mo-OnionsApple Music	#97March 1964	3	February 1964 – March 1964	0.4	0.4
Soul DressingApple Music	#95August 1964	2	August 1964 – August 1964	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1968 in music →

Booker T. & The MG's's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1968 to July 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.