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King Curtis portraitKing Curtis

Charting Aug 24, 1963Oct 21, 1967 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 34 wk

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Peak Power
0.57%
week of Oct 21, 1967
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
October 1966 – October 1967
Peak Five Years
14
November 1962 – October 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.17%
week of Oct 14, 1967
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

5 records · 14 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
Memphis Soul Stew#3397.0
Soul Serenade#51124.1
Jump Back#6361.9
Spanish Harlem#8950.7
Do The Monkey#9220.3

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At their peak

1966 in music

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

  1. 1The Monkees129
  2. 2The Buckinghams87
  3. 3The Supremes84
  4. 4The Young Rascals83
  5. 5Aretha Franklin82
  6. 6The Mamas & The Papas81
  7. 7Four Tops77
  8. 8The Association74
  9. 9The Turtles74
  10. 10Tommy James And The Shondells71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.