Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Hootie & The Blowfish

Charting Oct 8, 1994 → Nov 15, 2025 · 132 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 132 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Image credits

Photo: William G. Lewis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
4 crowns
19942025
Longest reign 2 weeks (Sep 1995) · First crown Jun 1995

Billboard Hot 100 · 132 wk UK Singles Chart · 11 wk Global Music Power · 134 wk

Peak Power: 3.36%; week of Oct 21, 1995
Career Power: 245; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 161; February 1995 – February 1996
Peak Five Years: 238; December 1991 – November 1996
Top-five weeks: 24; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 132; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.72%; week of Aug 26, 1995
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

7 records · 245 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
Hold My HandApple Music	#10February 1995	44	October 1994 – August 1995	60.6	63.9
Only Wanna Be With YouApple Music	#6October 1995	32	August 1995 – March 1996	60.0	63.5
Let Her CryApple Music	#9July 1995	35	March 1995 – November 1995	46.4	53.1
TimeApple Music	#14January 1996	26	November 1995 – May 1996	34.8	37.6
Old Man & Me (When I Get To Heaven)Apple Music	#13June 1996	20	April 1996 – September 1996	24.5	25.0
Tucker's TownApple Music	#38August 1996	20	July 1996 – November 1996	12.0	12.2
Bottle Rocketswith Scotty McCreeryApple Music	#32October 2025	20	July 2025 – November 2025	7.1	11.3

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At their peak

1995 in music →

Hootie & The Blowfish's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1995 to February 1996. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1TLC191
2Hootie & The Blowfish161
3Boyz II Men139
4Monica107
5Brandy100
6Real McCoy95
7Blues Traveler92
8The Notorious B.I.G.90
9Madonna88
10Soul For Real86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.