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Lou Reed portraitLou Reed

Charting Feb 17, 1973 → May 19, 1973 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 14 wk, UK Singles Chart 39 wk

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Peak Power
1.12%
week of May 19, 1973
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
16
May 1972 – May 1973
Peak Five Years
16
June 1968 – May 1973
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of May 5, 1973
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

1 song · 16 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
Walk On The Wild Side#161416.1

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At their peak

1972 in music →

Lou Reed's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1972 to May 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gilbert O'Sullivan93
  2. 2Elton John91
  3. 3Al Green88
  4. 4Bill Withers69
  5. 5Neil Diamond68
  6. 6Roberta Flack66
  7. 7Stevie Wonder63
  8. 8The O'Jays63
  9. 9Johnny Nash59
  10. 10The Spinners59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.