Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Dobie Gray

Charting Jan 12, 1963 → Nov 22, 2003 · 105 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 105 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 105 wk UK Singles Chart · 15 wk Global Music Power · 116 wk

Peak Power: 1.85%; week of Jun 16, 1973
Career Power: 78; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 37; October 1972 – October 1973
Peak Five Years: 39; November 1971 – October 1976
Top-five weeks: 2; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 105; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.07%; week of May 12, 1973
Comebacks: 1; May 1973, after 8 quiet years

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 · 78 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
Drift AwayApple Music	#5May 1973	21	February 1973 – July 1973	34.0	34.0
Drift Awayfeatured credit · with Uncle KrackerApple Music	#9August 2003	35	March 2003 – November 2003	17.7	57.3
The "In" CrowdApple Music	#13February 1965	9	January 1965 – March 1965	13.1	12.9
You Can Do ItApple Music	#37February 1979	11	December 1978 – March 1979	6.2	6.1
Loving ArmsApple Music	#61October 1973	11	August 1973 – October 1973	3.3	3.3
(See You At The) "Go-GoApple Music	#69May 1965	7	April 1965 – May 1965	1.7	1.6
If Love Must GoApple Music	#78March 1976	7	February 1976 – March 1976	1.3	1.3
Look At MeApple Music	#91January 1963	2	January 1963 – January 1963	0.3	0.3
Find 'Em, Fool 'Em & Forget 'EmApple Music	#94October 1976	2	October 1976 – October 1976	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1972 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.