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Joan Baez portraitJoan Baez

Charting Nov 9, 1963Nov 29, 1975 · 57 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 57 wk, UK Singles Chart 42 wk

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Peak Power
2.03%
week of Nov 6, 1971
Career Power
52
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
38
August 1971 – August 1972
Peak Five Years
48
December 1970 – November 1975
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
57
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.28%
week of Oct 2, 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

8 records · 52 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
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down#31533.6
Diamonds And Rust#35116.5
Let It Be#4983.8
There But For Fortune#5072.9
In The Quiet Morning#6982.2
Blue Sky#5751.8
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word#8640.7
We Shall Overcome#9010.2

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At their peak

1971 in music

Joan Baez's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1971 to August 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Al Green103
  2. 2Donny Osmond98
  3. 3Carpenters83
  4. 4Michael Jackson80
  5. 5Aretha Franklin79
  6. 6Three Dog Night79
  7. 7Bread73
  8. 8The Chi-lites71
  9. 9Cher71
  10. 10The Osmonds70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.