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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Janis Ian portraitJanis Ian

Charting May 27, 1967Aug 1, 1981 · 36 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 36 wk, UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Peak Power
1.96%
week of Sep 27, 1975
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
33
November 1974 – October 1975
Peak Five Years
33
November 1970 – October 1975
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.29%
week of Sep 20, 1975
Comebacks
1
Aug 1975, 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

3 records · 50 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
At Seventeen#32033.0
Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)#141215.9
Under The Covers#7141.0

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At their peak

1974 in music

Janis Ian's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1974 to October 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Denver93
  2. 2Eagles84
  3. 3America83
  4. 4Barry Manilow74
  5. 5Neil Sedaka71
  6. 6Linda Ronstadt70
  7. 7Olivia Newton-John70
  8. 8Freddy Fender70
  9. 9Elton John67
  10. 10Tony Orlando & Dawn67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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