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Merle Haggard portraitMerle Haggard

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

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 20 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power
0.36%
week of Jan 26, 1974
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
February 1973 – February 1974
Peak Five Years
7
December 1972 – December 1977
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.96%
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 Global Music Power

2 records · 7 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

SongPeakWeeksPower
If We Make It Through December#28114.7
From Graceland To The Promised Land#5892.3

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At their peak

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

  1. 1Elton John92
  2. 2Gladys Knight And The Pips88
  3. 3Carpenters87
  4. 4Wings84
  5. 5Stevie Wonder80
  6. 6Jim Croce69
  7. 7Donny Osmond60
  8. 8Dawn59
  9. 9Helen Reddy59
  10. 10Gilbert O'Sullivan57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.