Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Marvin Gaye

Charting Oct 20, 1962 → Oct 13, 2001 · 517 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 517 wk (8 crowns), UK Singles Chart 199 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same session—many of them in full color—can be seen at his website . Originally distributed by Motown Records ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
8 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Oct 1973) · First crown Jan 1969
UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar–Apr 1969) · First crown Mar 1969
Global Music Power
6 crowns
19622024
Longest reign 5 weeks (Sep–Oct 1973) · First crown Sep 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 517 wk UK Singles Chart · 199 wk Global Music Power · 563 wk

Peak Power: 2.82%; week of Feb 15, 1969
Career Power: 661; share-weeks
Crowns: 8; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 99; November 1968 – November 1969
Peak Five Years: 262; December 1966 – December 1971
Top-five weeks: 42; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 517; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.67%; week of Oct 20, 1973
Comebacks: 5; Nov 1967 · Apr 1971 · Feb 1973 · Jun 1976 · Dec 1982, after 5 quiet years

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

56 records · 661 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
Let's Get It OnApple Music	#1September 1973	19	July 1973 – November 1973	49.2	49.0
I Heard It Through The GrapevineApple Music	#1December 1968	15	November 1968 – March 1969	43.8	43.2
Sexual HealingApple Music	#3January 1983	21	October 1982 – March 1983	42.1	41.7
Got To Give It Up (Pt. I)Apple Music	#1June 1977	18	April 1977 – August 1977	39.6	39.4
What's Going OnApple Music	#2April 1971	15	February 1971 – May 1971	34.3	34.3
Too Busy Thinking About My BabyApple Music	#4June 1969	15	April 1969 – August 1969	30.2	29.9
Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)Apple Music	#4August 1971	12	July 1971 – September 1971	24.5	24.5
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By YouApple Music	#6January 1965	14	November 1964 – February 1965	23.0	22.7
Ain't That PeculiarApple Music	#8November 1965	12	October 1965 – December 1965	21.1	21.0
That's The Way Love IsApple Music	#7October 1969	12	August 1969 – November 1969	20.3	20.1
Trouble ManApple Music	#7February 1973	12	December 1972 – March 1973	20.2	20.2
Pride And JoyApple Music	#10July 1963	14	May 1963 – August 1963	19.9	19.6
I'll Be DoggoneApple Music	#8May 1965	12	March 1965 – June 1965	19.1	18.7
You're A Wonderful OneApple Music	#15April 1964	10	March 1964 – May 1964	16.9	15.0
Can I Get A WitnessApple Music	#22December 1963	16	October 1963 – February 1964	16.8	16.7
I Want YouApple Music	#15June 1976	13	April 1976 – July 1976	16.6	16.6
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)Apple Music	#9November 1971	9	October 1971 – December 1971	15.9	15.9
Try It BabyApple Music	#15July 1964	11	June 1964 – August 1964	14.9	14.9
Your Precious Lovewith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#5November 1967	13	September 1967 – December 1967	12.3	24.4
Come Get To ThisApple Music	#21December 1973	13	November 1973 – January 1974	12.0	12.8
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#8May 1968	13	April 1968 – July 1968	11.0	21.9
You're All I Need To Get Bywith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#7September 1968	12	July 1968 – October 1968	10.2	20.6
Baby Don't You Do ItApple Music	#27November 1964	9	September 1964 – November 1964	9.4	9.2
If I Could Build My Whole World Around Youwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#10January 1968	11	December 1967 – February 1968	8.6	18.0
My Mistake (Was To Love You)with Diana RossApple Music	#19May 1974	16	February 1974 – June 1974	8.3	16.7
Hitch HikeApple Music	#30March 1963	12	January 1963 – March 1963	7.6	7.4
Pretty Little BabyApple Music	#25August 1965	7	July 1965 – August 1965	7.5	7.5
Ain't No Mountain High Enoughwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#19July 1967	12	May 1967 – July 1967	7.4	15.0
ChainedApple Music	#32November 1968	10	September 1968 – November 1968	7.2	8.0
It Takes Twowith Kim WestonApple Music	#14March 1967	12	January 1967 – March 1967	6.8	13.4
One More HeartacheApple Music	#29March 1966	8	February 1966 – April 1966	6.5	6.4
You're A Special Part Of Mewith Diana RossApple Music	#12November 1973	12	October 1973 – December 1973	6.1	18.6
Distant LoverApple Music	#28November 1974	9	September 1974 – November 1974	6.0	6.0
Musicfeatured credit · with Erick SermonApple Music	#22July 2001	20	June 2001 – October 2001	5.6	18.2
Once Upon A Timewith Mary WellsApple Music	#19June 1964	9	May 1964 – June 1964	5.3	11.2
How Can I Forget/Gonna Give Her All The Love I've GotApple Music	#41February 1970	7	January 1970 – February 1970	5.2	5.2
YouApple Music	#34February 1968	7	January 1968 – February 1968	5.0	5.5
The End Of Our RoadApple Music	#40July 1970	7	June 1970 – July 1970	4.3	4.3
Take This Heart Of MineApple Music	#44July 1966	8	May 1966 – July 1966	4.3	4.3
Your Unchanging LoveApple Music	#33August 1967	7	July 1967 – August 1967	4.2	5.0
Stubborn Kind Of FellowApple Music	#46December 1962	9	October 1962 – December 1962	4.1	4.0
What's The Matter With You Babywith Mary WellsApple Music	#17July 1964	10	May 1964 – July 1964	3.5	10.8
Little Darling, I Need YouApple Music	#47September 1966	7	August 1966 – October 1966	3.4	3.4
You Sure Love To BallApple Music	#50February 1974	6	January 1974 – March 1974	3.1	3.0
Keep On Lovin' Me Honeywith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#24November 1968	7	October 1968 – November 1968	2.8	7.8
You're The Man (Part 1)Apple Music	#50June 1972	5	May 1972 – June 1972	2.6	2.6
Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come Bywith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#30March 1969	7	February 1969 – March 1969	2.5	6.5
Don't Knock My Lovewith Diana RossApple Music	#46August 1974	9	July 1974 – September 1974	2.0	4.1
What You Gave Mewith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#49December 1969	8	November 1969 – January 1970	1.8	3.9
The Onion Song/California Soulwith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#50May 1970	7	April 1970 – May 1970	1.4	2.7
Gonna Give Her All The Love I've GotApple Music	#67March 1970	4	March 1970 – March 1970	1.2	1.2
After The DanceApple Music	#74August 1976	5	August 1976 – September 1976	1.1	1.1
If This World Were Minewith Tammi TerrellApple Music	#68March 1968	6	March 1968 – April 1968	0.9	1.8
What Good Am I Without Youwith Kim WestonApple Music	#61November 1964	6	October 1964 – November 1964	0.6	1.8
I'm Crazy 'Bout My BabyApple Music	#77November 1963	3	October 1963 – November 1963	0.6	0.7
Pops, We Love You (A Tribute To Father)with Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Stevie WonderApple Music	#59February 1979	8	January 1979 – March 1979	0.6	2.3

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At their peak

1968 in music →

Marvin Gaye's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1968 to November 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.