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Charting Mar 15, 1969Apr 5, 1969 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.07%
week of Apr 5, 1969
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
April 1968 – April 1969
Peak Five Years
1
April 1964 – April 1969
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.21%
week of Apr 5, 1969
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 · 1 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
Kick Out The Jams#8240.7

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At their peak

1968 in music

MC5's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1968 to April 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin107
  2. 2The Beatles90
  3. 3Tommy James And The Shondells82
  4. 4Diana Ross & The Supremes81
  5. 5The Young Rascals80
  6. 6The Temptations78
  7. 7Marvin Gaye78
  8. 8Steppenwolf72
  9. 9The Doors69
  10. 10Archie Bell & The Drells68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.