Artists · Global Music Power

Grand Funk Railroad

Charting Sep 27, 1969 → Sep 25, 1976 · 182 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 182 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Carl Lender at https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1974) · First crown Sep 1973
Global Music Power
1 crown
19691976
First crown May 1974

Billboard Hot 100 · 182 wk UK Singles Chart · 1 wk Global Music Power · 182 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 1.47%; week of Jun 15, 1974
Career Power: 141; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 60; September 1973 – August 1974
Peak Five Years: 132; July 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks: 11; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 182; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.44%; week of May 4, 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 Global Music Power

20 records · 141 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
The Loco-MotionApple Music	#1	20	March 1974 – July 1974	24.4	24.4
We're An American BandApple Music	#1	17	July 1973 – November 1973	23.0	23.0
Some Kind Of WonderfulApple Music	#3	13	December 1974 – March 1975	18.7	18.7
Bad TimeApple Music	#4	15	April 1975 – July 1975	17.9	17.9
Shinin' OnApple Music	#11	11	July 1974 – September 1974	10.6	10.7
Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain)Apple Music	#22	12	August 1970 – October 1970	9.2	9.2
Walk Like A ManApple Music	#19	12	November 1973 – February 1974	7.9	7.8
Rock 'N Roll SoulApple Music	#29	13	September 1972 – December 1972	7.5	7.5
Footstompin' MusicApple Music	#29	11	January 1972 – March 1972	5.8	5.8
Time MachineApple Music	#48	11	September 1969 – December 1969	3.6	3.6
Mean MistreaterApple Music	#47	8	December 1970 – January 1971	2.4	2.4
Can You Do ItApple Music	#45	7	August 1976 – September 1976	2.3	2.2
Feelin' AlrightApple Music	#54	6	May 1971 – June 1971	1.7	1.7
Take MeApple Music	#53	5	January 1976 – February 1976	1.7	1.7
Gimme ShelterApple Music	#61	6	August 1971 – October 1971	1.4	1.4
HeartbreakerApple Music	#72	6	February 1970 – March 1970	1.0	1.0
UpsetterApple Music	#73	5	April 1972 – May 1972	0.9	0.9
SallyApple Music	#69	4	March 1976 – April 1976	0.7	0.7
Inside Looking Out	#40	1	January 1971	0.3	0.3
Mr. Limousine DriverApple Music	#97	2	December 1969 – December 1969	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

Grand Funk Railroad's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from September 1973 to August 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.