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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

First Class

Charting Jul 20, 1974Jul 19, 1975 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 24 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Peak Power
1.60%
week of Oct 12, 1974
Career Power
26
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
26
July 1974 – July 1975
Peak Five Years
26
August 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.17%
week of Oct 5, 1974
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

2 records · 26 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
Beach Baby#41724.7
Funny How Love Can Be#7471.2

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At their peak

1974 in music

First Class's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1974 to July 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Denver90
  2. 2America80
  3. 3Barry White75
  4. 4Elton John74
  5. 5Olivia Newton-John73
  6. 6Chicago71
  7. 7Stevie Wonder71
  8. 8Bachman-Turner Overdrive70
  9. 9Tony Orlando & Dawn68
  10. 10Helen Reddy65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.