Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Jim Croce

Charting Jul 1, 1972 → Feb 28, 1976 · 112 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — Billboard Hot 100 112 wk (7 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: ABC Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
7 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Dec 1973 – Jan 1974) · First crown Jul 1973
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19721976
Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1973 – Jan 1974) · First crown Dec 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 112 wk Global Music Power · 112 wk

Peak Power: 3.14%; week of Jan 19, 1974
Career Power: 174; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 116; June 1973 – May 1974
Peak Five Years: 174; March 1971 – February 1976
Top-five weeks: 14; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 112; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.42%; week of Dec 29, 1973
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

10 records · 174 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
Bad, Bad Leroy BrownApple Music	#1July 1973	22	April 1973 – September 1973	42.7	42.6
Time In A BottleApple Music	#1December 1973	15	November 1973 – February 1974	33.5	34.2
You Don't Mess Around With JimApple Music	#8September 1972	13	July 1972 – September 1972	22.0	21.9
I Got A NameApple Music	#10November 1973	17	October 1973 – January 1974	21.7	24.3
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A SongApple Music	#9April 1974	14	March 1974 – June 1974	21.3	21.1
Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)Apple Music	#17December 1972	12	October 1972 – December 1972	14.8	14.8
Workin' At The Car Wash BluesApple Music	#32July 1974	11	June 1974 – August 1974	8.8	8.7
One Less Set Of FootstepsApple Music	#37March 1973	10	February 1973 – April 1973	6.4	6.4
Chain Gang MedleyApple Music	#63February 1976	9	January 1976 – February 1976	2.6	2.6
It Doesn't Have To Be That WayApple Music	#64January 1974	5	December 1973 – January 1974	0.7	1.6

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At their peak

1973 in music →

Jim Croce's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1973 to May 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.