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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Friend And Lover

Charting May 18, 1968Sep 7, 1968 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.49%
week of Jul 27, 1968
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
24
September 1967 – September 1968
Peak Five Years
24
September 1963 – September 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.60%
week of Jun 29, 1968
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 · 24 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
Reach Out Of The Darkness#101423.9
If Love Is In Your Heart#8620.3

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At their peak

1967 in music

Friend And Lover's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1967 to September 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin125
  2. 2The Young Rascals80
  3. 3The Box Tops80
  4. 4Dionne Warwick79
  5. 5The Temptations77
  6. 6The Monkees75
  7. 7The Cowsills67
  8. 8The Beatles64
  9. 9James Brown And The Famous Flames62
  10. 10Smokey Robinson & The Miracles60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.