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Cannonball Adderley portraitCannonball Adderley

Also credited as Cannonball Adderley Orchestra

Charting Apr 10, 1961Jan 31, 1970 · 32 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 32 wk

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Peak Power
1.19%
week of Mar 11, 1967
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
May 1966 – May 1967
Peak Five Years
19
May 1962 – May 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
32
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.51%
week of Mar 4, 1967
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

5 records · 22 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
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy#111115.8
African Waltz#4163.2
The Jive Samba#6671.7
Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)#7351.3
Country Preacher#8630.5

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At their peak

1966 in music

Cannonball Adderley's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1966 to May 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Supremes111
  2. 2The Monkees105
  3. 3The Lovin' Spoonful97
  4. 4The Beatles96
  5. 5The Mamas & The Papas96
  6. 6The Rolling Stones93
  7. 7Four Tops79
  8. 8Herman's Hermits74
  9. 9Frank Sinatra73
  10. 10Johnny Rivers69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.