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Deep Purple portraitDeep Purple

Charting Aug 17, 1968Feb 16, 1985 · 62 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 62 wk, UK Singles Chart 91 wk

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Peak Power
1.84%
week of Aug 18, 1973
Career Power
65
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
32
April 1973 – April 1974
Peak Five Years
56
August 1968 – August 1973
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
62
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.25%
week of Sep 21, 1968
Comebacks
1
Jul 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

8 records · 65 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
Smoke On The Water#41629.3
Hush#41020.7
Kentucky Woman#3886.0
River Deep-Mountain High#5352.4
Knocking At Your Back Door#6172.4
Woman From Tokyo#6061.8
Black Night#6661.8
Might Just Take Your Life#9140.6

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At their peak

1973 in music

Deep Purple's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1973 to April 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips116
  2. 2Jim Croce108
  3. 3Elton John104
  4. 4Stevie Wonder88
  5. 5Charlie Rich84
  6. 6Carpenters83
  7. 7Helen Reddy83
  8. 8Eddie Kendricks76
  9. 9Billy Preston74
  10. 10Barry White74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.