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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Don Covay

Charting Dec 29, 1962Aug 17, 1974 · 25 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 25 wk, UK Singles Chart 6 wk

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Peak Power
0.61%
week of Sep 8, 1973
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
July 1973 – July 1974
Peak Five Years
9
August 1969 – August 1974
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.33%
week of Aug 25, 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

4 records · 11 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
I Was Checkin' Out She Was Checkin' In#29107.6
It's Better To Have (and Don't Need)#6361.6
The Popeye Waddle#7571.5
Take This Hurt Off Me#9720.3

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At their peak

1973 in music

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

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips127
  2. 2Wings106
  3. 3Elton John104
  4. 4Jim Croce103
  5. 5Ringo Starr87
  6. 6Eddie Kendricks85
  7. 7Helen Reddy84
  8. 8Chicago84
  9. 9Grand Funk Railroad82
  10. 10Charlie Rich81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.