Artists · Billboard Hot 100

James Brown

Charting Nov 14, 1960 → Oct 25, 1986 · 329 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 329 wk, UK Singles Chart 113 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 329 wk UK Singles Chart · 113 wk Global Music Power · 418 wk

Peak Power: 2.04%; week of Aug 16, 1969
Career Power: 331; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 79; February 1969 – January 1970
Peak Five Years: 254; September 1968 – September 1973
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 329; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.28%; week of Jul 19, 1969
Comebacks: 1; February 1986

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	May 12, 1973	Feb 15, 1986	666	455	2.03%	1.17%

Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

48 records · 331 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is the share of each week's Power Share this song earned the artist; a featured credit earns its reduced share. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower
Living In AmericaApple Music	#4March 1986	19	December 1985 – April 1986	28.5
Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) Part 1	#11July 1969	12	June 1969 – August 1969	21.9
Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Part 1)Apple Music	#10October 1968	11	September 1968 – November 1968	19.2
Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Pt. 1)Apple Music	#15August 1971	11	July 1971 – September 1971	16.1
Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2)Apple Music	#13November 1970	10	October 1970 – December 1970	15.1
Get On The Good Foot-Part 1	#18October 1972	14	August 1972 – November 1972	15.0
Give It Up Or Turnit A LooseApple Music	#15March 1969	9	January 1969 – March 1969	13.1
The Payback - Part IApple Music	#26May 1974	13	March 1974 – June 1974	13.0
Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine (Part 1)Apple Music	#15August 1970	9	July 1970 – September 1970	12.4
Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1)Apple Music	#24January 1970	11	November 1969 – January 1970	11.4
Make It Funky (Part 1)Apple Music	#22October 1971	9	August 1971 – October 1971	10.4
I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Mysel	#20May 1969	8	April 1969 – May 1969	10.2
My ThangApple Music	#29August 1974	13	June 1974 – September 1974	9.5
Soul Power (Pt. 1)Apple Music	#29April 1971	9	February 1971 – April 1971	8.6
Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Part One)Apple Music	#21November 1969	8	October 1969 – November 1969	7.8
I Got Ants In My Pants (and i want to dance) (Part 1)	#27March 1973	8	January 1973 – March 1973	7.6
Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 1)	#34February 1971	8	January 1971 – February 1971	7.4
It's A New Day (Part 1) & (Part 2)	#32March 1970	8	February 1970 – April 1970	7.1
Talking Loud And Saying Nothing - Part I	#27March 1972	7	February 1972 – March 1972	7.0
I'm A Greedy Man - Part I	#35December 1971	8	November 1971 – January 1972	6.6
Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part I)Apple Music	#31September 1974	11	August 1974 – November 1974	6.3
Brother Rapp (Part 1)	#32May 1970	8	May 1970 – June 1970	6.1
The PopcornApple Music	#30July 1969	9	May 1969 – July 1969	5.2
Funky President (People It's Bad)/ColdbloodedApple Music	#44December 1974	10	November 1974 – January 1975	5.0
World (Part 1)	#37September 1969	7	September 1969 – October 1969	4.9
Goodbye My Love	#31December 1968	7	November 1968 – December 1968	4.8
There It Is (Part 1)	#43June 1972	7	May 1972 – June 1972	4.4
King Heroin	#40April 1972	7	March 1972 – April 1972	4.3
Escape-ism (Part 1)	#35July 1971	6	June 1971 – July 1971	4.3
I Got A Bag Of My Own	#44December 1972	7	November 1972 – December 1972	3.9
Sexy, Sexy, Sexy	#50September 1973	8	August 1973 – October 1973	3.9
Get Up Offa That Thing	#45September 1976	7	August 1976 – September 1976	3.7
Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Part Two)	#40January 1970	8	December 1969 – February 1970	3.7
Stoned To The Bone - Part 1Apple Music	#58January 1974	11	December 1973 – February 1974	3.2
Down And Out In New York City	#50April 1973	7	March 1973 – April 1973	3.2
Lowdown Popcorn	#41September 1969	6	August 1969 – September 1969	3.1
I Cried	#50May 1971	6	May 1971 – June 1971	2.8
Funky Drummer (Part 1)	#51April 1970	5	March 1970 – April 1970	1.8
The Bells	#68December 1960	6	November 1960 – December 1960	1.7
Sex Machine (Part I)	#61June 1975	5	May 1975 – June 1975	1.6
Think	#77June 1973	7	May 1973 – August 1973	1.4
My Part/Make It Funky (Part 3)	#68November 1971	6	October 1971 – November 1971	1.2
Reality	#80March 1975	4	February 1975 – March 1975	0.8
Tit For Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)	#86December 1968	4	December 1968 – January 1969	0.7
Bodyheat (Part 1)	#88March 1977	3	February 1977 – March 1977	0.5
Gravity	#93October 1986	2	October 1986 – October 1986	0.3
Spinning Wheel (Pt. 1)	#90March 1971	2	March 1971 – March 1971	0.2
Thinkwith Vicki Anderson	#100April 1967	1	April 1967	0.1

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