Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Johnny Rivers

Also credited as Johnny Rivers & Friends

Charting May 30, 1964 → Feb 25, 1978 · 259 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in it — Billboard Hot 100 259 wk (1 crown)

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Image credits

Photo: David Forest Company (management)/Epic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
19641978
First crown Nov 1966

Billboard Hot 100 · 259 wk Global Music Power · 259 wk

Peak Power: 2.13%; week of Dec 10, 1966
Career Power: 329; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 82; April 1966 – April 1967
Peak Five Years: 230; April 1964 – March 1969
Top-five weeks: 18; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 259; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of Jul 11, 1964
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1972, after 5 quiet years · Sep 1977

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

29 records · 329 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
Swayin' To The Music (slow Dancin')	#10October 1977	24	June 1977 – December 1977	32.8	32.5
Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu	#6January 1973	19	October 1972 – February 1973	32.5	32.4
Poor Side Of Town	#1November 1966	15	September 1966 – December 1966	32.2	32.0
MemphisApple Music	#2July 1964	12	May 1964 – August 1964	27.8	26.7
Secret Agent ManApple Music	#3April 1966	11	March 1966 – May 1966	24.7	24.4
Baby I Need Your LovinApple Music	#3March 1967	11	February 1967 – April 1967	23.4	23.0
Seventh SonApple Music	#7July 1965	11	June 1965 – August 1965	22.8	22.5
Mountain Of LoveApple Music	#9December 1964	11	October 1964 – January 1965	18.4	18.1
Summer RainApple Music	#14January 1968	10	November 1967 – January 1968	14.5	14.4
The Tracks Of My TearsApple Music	#10July 1967	9	June 1967 – July 1967	14.3	14.2
MaybellineApple Music	#12September 1964	9	August 1964 – October 1964	14.2	13.9
Help Me RhondaApple Music	#22August 1975	10	July 1975 – September 1975	9.5	9.5
(I Washed My Hands In) Muddy Water	#19July 1966	8	June 1966 – July 1966	9.1	9.0
Midnight SpecialApple Music	#20March 1965	8	February 1965 – March 1965	8.7	8.6
Where Have All The Flowers GoneApple Music	#26November 1965	9	October 1965 – November 1965	6.8	6.7
Blue Suede ShoesApple Music	#38May 1973	10	March 1973 – May 1973	6.1	6.1
Muddy RiverApple Music	#41August 1969	11	June 1969 – September 1969	6.0	5.9
Under Your Spell AgainApple Music	#35January 1966	8	December 1965 – February 1966	5.3	5.2
Curious Mind (Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um)	#41February 1978	10	December 1977 – February 1978	4.8	4.7
Look To Your SoulApple Music	#49May 1968	7	April 1968 – May 1968	4.0	3.9
Into The MysticApple Music	#51June 1970	8	May 1970 – June 1970	3.5	3.5
These Are Not My PeopleApple Music	#55March 1969	6	February 1969 – March 1969	2.1	2.1
Think His NameApple Music	#65September 1971	6	August 1971 – October 1971	1.8	1.8
Right Relations	#61December 1968	3	November 1968 – December 1968	1.3	1.3
Sea Cruise	#84May 1971	4	May 1971 – May 1971	0.6	0.6
One Woman	#89November 1969	4	October 1969 – November 1969	0.6	0.6
Ashes And Sand	#96February 1977	4	February 1977 – February 1977	0.5	0.5
CupidApple Music	#76March 1965	4	February 1965 – March 1965	0.5	0.8
Fire And Rain	#94September 1970	2	September 1970 – September 1970	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1966 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.