Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bread

Charting Jun 13, 1970 → May 28, 1977 · 147 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 147 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 45 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
First crown Aug 1970
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19701977
Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug–Sep 1970) · First crown Aug 1970

Billboard Hot 100 · 147 wk UK Singles Chart · 45 wk Global Music Power · 154 wk

Peak Power: 2.24%; week of Sep 19, 1970
Career Power: 241; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 89; June 1970 – June 1971
Peak Five Years: 211; April 1968 – April 1973
Top-five weeks: 14; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 147; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.52%; week of Aug 22, 1970
Comebacks: 1; January 1977

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Jun 9, 1973	Jan 22, 1977	189	181	2.24%	1.11%

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

13 records · 241 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
Make It With YouApple Music	#1August 1970	17	June 1970 – October 1970	37.7	37.5
Lost Without Your LoveApple Music	#9February 1977	16	November 1976 – March 1977	27.6	27.5
Everything I OwnApple Music	#5March 1972	13	January 1972 – April 1972	26.4	26.2
Baby I'm - A Want YouApple Music	#3November 1971	12	October 1971 – January 1972	26.1	26.0
IfApple Music	#4May 1971	12	March 1971 – June 1971	24.9	24.9
It Don't Matter To MeApple Music	#10November 1970	11	September 1970 – December 1970	17.6	17.8
The Guitar ManApple Music	#11September 1972	10	July 1972 – September 1972	17.2	17.2
Sweet SurrenderApple Music	#15December 1972	11	November 1972 – January 1973	15.7	15.7
DiaryApple Music	#15June 1972	11	April 1972 – July 1972	15.6	15.6
AubreyApple Music	#15March 1973	11	February 1973 – April 1973	14.8	14.7
Let Your Love GoApple Music	#28February 1971	10	January 1971 – March 1971	9.0	9.0
Mother FreedomApple Music	#37August 1971	9	July 1971 – September 1971	5.9	5.9
Hooked On YouApple Music	#60May 1977	7	April 1977 – May 1977	2.4	2.4

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At their peak

1970 in music →

Bread's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1970 to June 1971. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.