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Merle Haggard And The Strangers

Charting Nov 1, 1969Oct 20, 1973 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 35 wk

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Peak Power
0.45%
week of Jan 17, 1970
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
March 1969 – February 1970
Peak Five Years
13
November 1968 – October 1973
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
35
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.88%
week of Jan 3, 1970
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

5 records · 13 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
Okie From Muskogee#41147.1
Carolyn#5872.9
Everybody's Had The Blues#6282.4
Soldier's Last Letter#9030.5
The Fightin' Side Of Me#9230.4

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At their peak

1969 in music

Merle Haggard And The Strangers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1969 to February 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival139
  2. 2The 5th Dimension107
  3. 3Elvis Presley97
  4. 4Three Dog Night96
  5. 5Blood, Sweat & Tears92
  6. 6The Temptations91
  7. 7The Beatles88
  8. 8Tommy James And The Shondells84
  9. 9Sly & The Family Stone79
  10. 10James Brown75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.