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Lynyrd Skynyrd portraitLynyrd Skynyrd

Charting Jul 27, 1974Jul 18, 2026 · 72 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 72 wk, UK Singles Chart 43 wk

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Peak Power
1.68%
week of Nov 2, 1974
Career Power
76
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
44
August 1974 – August 1975
Peak Five Years
74
May 1973 – May 1978
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
72
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.77%
week of Oct 26, 1974
Comebacks
1
Feb 1978

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

6 records · 76 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
Sweet Home Alabama#81827.4
What's Your Name#131823.2
Free Bird#192016.2
Saturday Night Special#2797.5
You Got That Right#6941.0
Double Trouble#8030.6

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At their peak

1974 in music

Lynyrd Skynyrd's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1974 to August 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1America83
  2. 2Olivia Newton-John80
  3. 3John Denver77
  4. 4Tony Orlando & Dawn76
  5. 5Barry White73
  6. 6Elton John71
  7. 7Stevie Wonder70
  8. 8Bachman-Turner Overdrive64
  9. 9Helen Reddy63
  10. 10B.T. Express63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.