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Janis Joplin portraitJanis Joplin

Charting Nov 8, 1969Aug 5, 1972 · 36 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itBillboard Hot 100 36 wk (2 crowns)

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Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    19691972

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 1971) · First crown Mar 1971

Peak Power
2.08%
week of Apr 24, 1971
Career Power
44
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
39
September 1970 – September 1971
Peak Five Years
44
August 1967 – August 1972
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.52%
week of Mar 27, 1971
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 Billboard Hot 100

5 records · 44 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
Me And Bobby McGee#11534.2
Kozmic Blues#4194.8
Cry Baby#4263.9
Down On Me#9140.6
Get It While You Can#7820.5

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At their peak

1970 in music

Janis Joplin's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1970 to September 1971. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Carpenters110
  2. 2Jackson 5109
  3. 3Three Dog Night93
  4. 4Dawn87
  5. 5James Taylor75
  6. 6Neil Diamond74
  7. 7Chicago72
  8. 8The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones69
  9. 9Aretha Franklin64
  10. 10Bee Gees63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.