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Jimmy Ruffin portraitJimmy Ruffin

Charting Aug 20, 1966May 31, 1980 · 66 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 66 wk, UK Singles Chart 109 wk

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Peak Power
1.67%
week of Nov 26, 1966
Career Power
73
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
50
August 1966 – August 1967
Peak Five Years
53
March 1966 – February 1971
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
66
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.87%
week of Nov 5, 1966
Comebacks
1
Apr 1980, 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

8 records · 73 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
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted#71729.5
Hold On To My Love#101419.8
I've Passed This Way Before#171113.9
Gonna Give Her All The Love I've Got#2975.7
Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby#6851.5
I'll Say Forever My Love#7751.2
Stand By Mewith David#6171.0
Maria (You Were The Only One)#9720.2

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At their peak

1966 in music

Jimmy Ruffin's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1966 to August 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Monkees127
  2. 2The Supremes111
  3. 3Four Tops88
  4. 4The Beatles79
  5. 5The Hollies77
  6. 6The Association76
  7. 7The Mamas & The Papas74
  8. 8The Buckinghams74
  9. 9Petula Clark70
  10. 10Johnny Rivers70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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