Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Hurricane Smith

Charting Dec 2, 1972 → May 12, 1973 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 24 wk, UK Singles Chart 35 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 24 wk UK Singles Chart · 35 wk Global Music Power · 59 wk

Peak Power: 1.82%; week of Mar 3, 1973
Career Power: 32; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 32; May 1972 – May 1973
Peak Five Years: 32; May 1968 – May 1973
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 24; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.28%; week of Feb 17, 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

2 records · 32 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
Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?Apple Music	#3February 1973	15	December 1972 – March 1973	28.1	28.1
Who Was It?Apple Music	#49April 1973	9	March 1973 – May 1973	4.3	4.3

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At their peak

1972 in music →

Hurricane Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1972 to May 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.