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Carl Douglas portraitCarl Douglas

Charting Oct 12, 1974Mar 29, 1975 · 25 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 25 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 39 wk (3 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Dec 1974) · First crown Dec 1974

  • UK Singles Chart

    3 crowns

    19741998

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep 1974) · First crown Sep 1974

Peak Power
2.08%
week of Jan 11, 1975
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
37
April 1974 – March 1975
Peak Five Years
37
April 1970 – March 1975
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.52%
week of Dec 7, 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 · 37 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
Kung Fu Fighting#11833.8
Dance The Kung Fu#4873.1

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At their peak

1974 in music

Carl Douglas's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1974 to March 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John106
  2. 2Stevie Wonder89
  3. 3John Denver87
  4. 4Olivia Newton-John79
  5. 5Helen Reddy79
  6. 6Bachman-Turner Overdrive77
  7. 7Grand Funk Railroad76
  8. 8Wings72
  9. 9Chicago70
  10. 10Gladys Knight And The Pips69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.