Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Isaac Hayes

Charting Aug 23, 1969 → Mar 15, 1980 · 113 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 113 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 25 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Nov 1971) · First crown Nov 1971
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19692000
Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1971) · First crown Dec 1971

Billboard Hot 100 · 113 wk UK Singles Chart · 25 wk Global Music Power · 131 wk

Peak Power: 2.20%; week of Dec 18, 1971
Career Power: 115; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 56; May 1971 – May 1972
Peak Five Years: 93; July 1969 – June 1974
Top-five weeks: 7; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 113; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Nov 20, 1971
Comebacks: 1; Jan 1980, after 8 quiet years

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

14 records · 115 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
Theme From ShaftApple Music	#1November 1971	13	October 1971 – January 1972	35.0	34.9
Don't Let GoApple Music	#18February 1980	21	October 1979 – March 1980	22.3	22.0
Do Your ThingApple Music	#30April 1972	11	February 1972 – May 1972	9.2	9.3
Never Can Say GoodbyeApple Music	#22July 1971	9	May 1971 – July 1971	8.9	8.9
Joy" Pt. I	#30February 1974	9	December 1973 – February 1974	8.4	8.4
Walk On ByApple Music	#30October 1969	12	August 1969 – November 1969	7.8	8.5
Theme From The MenApple Music	#38December 1972	9	October 1972 – December 1972	6.0	6.0
I Stand AccusedApple Music	#42October 1970	9	August 1970 – October 1970	5.9	5.8
By The Time I Get To PhoenixApple Music	#37October 1969	8	August 1969 – October 1969	5.7	6.0
Let's Stay TogetherApple Music	#48April 1972	7	April 1972 – May 1972	3.0	3.9
WonderfulApple Music	#71June 1974	8	May 1974 – June 1974	1.7	1.7
The Look Of LoveApple Music	#79March 1971	5	February 1971 – March 1971	0.9	0.9
Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)with David PorterApple Music	#86May 1972	4	May 1972 – June 1972	0.3	0.6
Chocolate ChipApple Music	#92August 1975	2	August 1975 – August 1975	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1971 in music →

Isaac Hayes's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1971 to May 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.