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Iron Butterfly portraitIron Butterfly

Charting Aug 24, 1968Nov 28, 1970 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 30 wk

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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
0.52%
week of Nov 9, 1968
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
July 1968 – July 1969
Peak Five Years
11
December 1965 – November 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.90%
week of Nov 2, 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 Global Music Power

4 records · 11 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida#30178.4
Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)#6661.3
Soul Experience#7550.9
In The Time Of Our Lives#9620.2

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At their peak

Iron Butterfly's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from July 1968 to July 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles93
  2. 2Marvin Gaye82
  3. 3Diana Ross & The Supremes73
  4. 4Glen Campbell68
  5. 5The 5th Dimension67
  6. 6The Temptations65
  7. 7Tommy James And The Shondells64
  8. 8Creedence Clearwater Revival62
  9. 9Mary Hopkin59
  10. 10Steppenwolf58

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.