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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Luther Ingram

Charting Jan 10, 1970May 5, 1973 · 53 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 53 wk

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Peak Power
2.11%
week of Sep 2, 1972
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
43
May 1972 – May 1973
Peak Five Years
51
May 1968 – May 1973
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
53
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.29%
week of Aug 12, 1972
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

7 records · 51 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
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right#31635.4
I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time Of Storm)#40116.1
Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)#4594.5
My Honey And Me#5572.9
Always#6451.5
You Were Made For Me#9330.4
Be Good To Me Baby#9720.2

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At their peak

1972 in music

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

  1. 1Al Green94
  2. 2Gilbert O'Sullivan89
  3. 3Elton John87
  4. 4Roberta Flack73
  5. 5Bill Withers71
  6. 6Neil Diamond69
  7. 7The Stylistics63
  8. 8The O'Jays63
  9. 9Bread62
  10. 10The Moody Blues60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.