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Curtis Mayfield portraitCurtis Mayfield

Charting Nov 21, 1970 → Nov 8, 1975 · 86 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 86 wk, UK Singles Chart 24 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 86 wkUK Singles Chart · 24 wkGlobal Music Power · 110 wk
Peak Power
2.27%
week of Jan 27, 1973
Career Power
80
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
57
September 1972 – September 1973
Peak Five Years
80
November 1970 – November 1975
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
86
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.18%
week of Nov 4, 1972
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

9 records · 80 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
Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")#41626.9
Superfly#81526.2
(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go#29128.5
Kung Fu#40137.0
Future Shock#39106.3
So In Love#6771.7
Get Down#6971.5
If I Were Only A Child Again#7140.9
Can't Say Nothin#8850.7

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At their peak

1972 in music →

Curtis Mayfield's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1972 to September 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John90
  2. 2Gilbert O'Sullivan82
  3. 3The Spinners81
  4. 4Wings80
  5. 5Helen Reddy78
  6. 6Stevie Wonder73
  7. 7Al Green72
  8. 8Lobo71
  9. 9Seals & Crofts67
  10. 10Jim Croce66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.