Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Dawn

Charting Jul 25, 1970 → Apr 27, 1974 · 119 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 119 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 79 wk (5 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jan–Feb 1971) · First crown Jan 1971
UK Singles Chart
5 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (May–Jun 1971) · First crown May 1971
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19701974
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1971) · First crown Jan 1971

Billboard Hot 100 · 119 wk UK Singles Chart · 79 wk Global Music Power · 133 wk

Peak Power: 2.93%; week of Feb 27, 1971
Career Power: 160; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 96; August 1970 – August 1971
Peak Five Years: 160; May 1969 – April 1974
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 119; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.54%; week of Jan 23, 1971
Comebacks: 1; Apr 1973

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

11 records · 160 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Knock Three TimesApple Music	#1January 1971	18	November 1970 – March 1971	45.6	45.5
CandidaApple Music	#3October 1970	18	July 1970 – November 1970	34.7	34.5
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Treefeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#1April 1973	23	February 1973 – July 1973	33.8	48.2
Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rosefeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#3September 1973	16	July 1973 – October 1973	22.1	31.6
I Play And SingApple Music	#25April 1971	8	March 1971 – May 1971	8.7	8.7
Summer SandApple Music	#33July 1971	10	June 1971 – August 1971	8.1	8.1
What Are You Doing Sundayfeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#39November 1971	9	October 1971 – November 1971	4.4	6.3
You're A Ladyfeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#70January 1973	8	November 1972 – January 1973	1.3	1.9
It Only Hurts When I Try To Smilefeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#81April 1974	5	March 1974 – April 1974	0.6	0.9
Runaway/Happy Togetherfeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#79February 1972	4	January 1972 – February 1972	0.5	0.7
Vaya Con Diosfeat. Tony OrlandoApple Music	#95July 1972	3	June 1972 – July 1972	0.3	0.4

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At their peak

1970 in music →

Dawn's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1970 to August 1971. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1Carpenters121
2Jackson 5107
3Dawn96
4Three Dog Night87
5Neil Diamond86
6Chicago76
7Bread73
8James Taylor68
9Tom Jones67
10The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.