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Charting Dec 23, 1972Oct 1, 1977 · 64 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 64 wk, UK Singles Chart 6 wk

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Peak Power
1.87%
week of Feb 9, 1974
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
41
November 1973 – October 1974
Peak Five Years
50
October 1972 – October 1977
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
64
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.30%
week of Jan 19, 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

7 records · 50 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
Smokin' In The Boy's Room#31931.7
Kings Of The Party#3195.8
Lady (put The Light On Me)#46103.9
I'm The Leader Of The Gang#4883.7
Let Your Yeah Be Yeah#5782.5
The Martian Boogie#5972.0
The Red Back Spider#9630.4

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At their peak

1973 in music

Brownsville Station's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1973 to October 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John115
  2. 2Gladys Knight And The Pips111
  3. 3Olivia Newton-John89
  4. 4Charlie Rich84
  5. 5Ringo Starr83
  6. 6Stevie Wonder81
  7. 7Jim Croce81
  8. 8Jim Stafford78
  9. 9Wings77
  10. 10Chicago76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.