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John Williams portraitJohn Williams

Charting Aug 9, 1975Feb 17, 1979 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 28 wk, UK Singles Chart 37 wk

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Peak Power
1.20%
week of Mar 11, 1978
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
April 1977 – March 1978
Peak Five Years
21
March 1974 – February 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.39%
week of Mar 4, 1978
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

3 records · 21 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
Theme From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind#131417.0
Main Title (Theme From "Jaws")with "Jaws" Soundtrack#32103.4
Theme From Superman (Main Title)with London Symphony Orchestra#8140.4

At their peak

1977 in music

John Williams's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1977 to March 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bee Gees119
  2. 2Andy Gibb107
  3. 3Shaun Cassidy99
  4. 4Fleetwood Mac91
  5. 5Rita Coolidge87
  6. 6Foreigner82
  7. 7KC And The Sunshine Band81
  8. 8Commodores71
  9. 9Linda Ronstadt68
  10. 10Debby Boone65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.