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Cheech & Chong portraitCheech & Chong

Charting Sep 8, 1973Nov 30, 1985 · 76 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 76 wk

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Peak Power
1.08%
week of Jan 26, 1974
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
October 1973 – September 1974
Peak Five Years
52
January 1973 – January 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
76
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.18%
week of Oct 20, 1973
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

8 records · 57 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
Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces#151114.8
Earache My Eyefeat. Alice Bowie#91312.1
Sister Mary Elephant (Shudd-Up!)#241210.8
Bloat On Featuring the Bloaters#41106.0
Born In East L.A.#48114.9
Framed#4184.3
Black Lassie (Featuring Johnny Stash)#5562.2
(How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Or A Day At The Beach With Pedro & Man - P#5452.0

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At their peak

1973 in music

Cheech & Chong's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1973 to September 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips122
  2. 2Elton John108
  3. 3Ringo Starr87
  4. 4Jim Croce86
  5. 5Charlie Rich82
  6. 6Stevie Wonder80
  7. 7Eddie Kendricks80
  8. 8Chicago79
  9. 9Wings79
  10. 10Helen Reddy77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.