Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Johnny Nash

Charting Nov 10, 1958 → Apr 27, 1974 · 98 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 98 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 109 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Joda Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
4 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Nov 1972) · First crown Nov 1972
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19581989
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov 1972) · First crown Nov 1972

Billboard Hot 100 · 98 wk UK Singles Chart · 109 wk Global Music Power · 181 wk

Peak Power: 2.21%; week of Dec 23, 1972
Career Power: 107; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 60; August 1972 – July 1973
Peak Five Years: 99; August 1968 – July 1973
Top-five weeks: 9; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 98; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Nov 25, 1972
Comebacks: 1; Nov 1972

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 · 107 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
I Can See Clearly NowApple Music	#1November 1972	20	September 1972 – January 1973	39.1	39.1
Hold Me TightApple Music	#5November 1968	15	September 1968 – December 1968	27.6	27.3
Stir It UpApple Music	#12April 1973	14	February 1973 – May 1973	20.3	20.3
CupidApple Music	#39January 1970	14	November 1969 – February 1970	8.8	8.8
As Time Goes By	#43May 1959	11	March 1959 – May 1959	6.1	5.9
You Got SoulApple Music	#58January 1969	7	December 1968 – January 1969	2.0	2.1
My Merry-go-roundApple Music	#77July 1973	5	June 1973 – July 1973	1.0	1.0
Let's Move & Groove (Together)Apple Music	#88December 1965	7	September 1965 – December 1965	1.0	1.0
Almost In Your Arms	#78November 1958	4	November 1958 – December 1958	0.7	0.7
Loving YouApple Music	#91April 1974	3	April 1974 – April 1974	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1972 in music →

Johnny Nash's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1972 to July 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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