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Joe South portraitJoe South

Charting Aug 4, 1958Dec 18, 1971 · 31 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 31 wk, UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
1.41%
week of Mar 29, 1969
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
July 1968 – July 1969
Peak Five Years
24
December 1966 – December 1971
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.41%
week of Mar 22, 1969
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

6 records · 25 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
Games People Play#121219.8
Children#5173.0
Fool Me#7871.3
The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor#8920.3
You're The Reason#8720.3
Birds Of A Feather#9610.1

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At their peak

1968 in music

Joe South's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1968 to July 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles96
  2. 2The 5th Dimension92
  3. 3Marvin Gaye91
  4. 4Steppenwolf83
  5. 5Diana Ross & The Supremes83
  6. 6The Temptations82
  7. 7Glen Campbell80
  8. 8Creedence Clearwater Revival80
  9. 9Tommy James And The Shondells79
  10. 10Aretha Franklin72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.