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James Brown portraitJames Brown

Also credited as James Brown And His Orchestra and James Brown At The Organ

Charting Nov 14, 1960 → Oct 25, 1986 · 350 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 350 wk, UK Singles Chart 113 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 350 wkUK Singles Chart · 113 wkGlobal Music Power · 439 wk
Peak Power
2.04%
week of Aug 16, 1969
Career Power
344
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
79
February 1969 – January 1970
Peak Five Years
254
September 1968 – September 1973
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
350
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.28%
week of Jul 19, 1969
Comebacks
1
Feb 1986, after 13 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

52 records · 344 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Living In America#41928.5
Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) Part 1#111221.9
Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Part 1)#101119.2
Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Pt. 1)#151116.1
Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2)#131015.1
Get On The Good Foot-Part 1#181415.0
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose#15913.1
The Payback - Part I#261313.0
Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine (Part 1)#15912.4
Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1)#241111.4
Make It Funky (Part 1)#22910.4
I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Mysel#20810.3
Out Of Sight#24109.5
My Thang#29139.5
Soul Power (Pt. 1)#2998.6
Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Part One)#2187.8
I Got Ants In My Pants (and i want to dance) (Part 1)#2787.6
Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 1)#3487.4
It's A New Day (Part 1) & (Part 2)#3287.1
Talking Loud And Saying Nothing - Part I#2777.0
I'm A Greedy Man - Part I#3586.6
Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part I)#31116.3
Brother Rapp (Part 1)#3286.1
The Popcorn#3095.2
Funky President (People It's Bad)/Coldblooded#44105.0
World (Part 1)#3774.9
Goodbye My Love#3174.9
There It Is (Part 1)#4374.3
Escape-ism (Part 1)#3564.3
King Heroin#4074.3
I Got A Bag Of My Own#4473.9
Sexy, Sexy, Sexy#5083.9
Get Up Offa That Thing#4573.7
Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Part Two)#4083.7
Stoned To The Bone - Part 1#58113.2
Down And Out In New York City#5073.2
Lowdown Popcorn#4163.1
I Cried#5062.8
Try Me#6382.6
Funky Drummer (Part 1)#5151.8
The Bells#6861.6
Sex Machine (Part I)#6151.6
Think#7771.4
My Part/Make It Funky (Part 3)#6861.2
Reality#8040.8
Tit For Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)#8640.7
Bodyheat (Part 1)#8830.5
Gravity#9320.3
Caldonia#9520.3
Spinning Wheel (Pt. 1)#9020.2
The Things That I Used To Do#9910.1
Thinkwith Vicki Anderson#10010.1

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At their peak

1969 in music →

James Brown's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1969 to January 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival137
  2. 2The 5th Dimension103
  3. 3Tommy James And The Shondells97
  4. 4Three Dog Night96
  5. 5Elvis Presley95
  6. 6Blood, Sweat & Tears92
  7. 7The Beatles88
  8. 8The Temptations87
  9. 9James Brown79
  10. 10Sly & The Family Stone79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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