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Merle Haggard portraitMerle Haggard

Charting Nov 24, 1973Dec 17, 1977 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 20 wk

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Peak Power
0.52%
week of Jan 26, 1974
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
February 1973 – February 1974
Peak Five Years
10
December 1972 – December 1977
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.39%
week of Jan 19, 1974
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

2 records · 10 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 We Make It Through December#28116.8
From Graceland To The Promised Land#5893.4

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At their peak

1973 in music

Merle Haggard's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1973 to February 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips117
  2. 2Elton John105
  3. 3Jim Croce101
  4. 4Carpenters97
  5. 5Stevie Wonder96
  6. 6Wings93
  7. 7Helen Reddy86
  8. 8War76
  9. 9Marvin Gaye75
  10. 10Billy Preston73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.