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Michael Murphey portraitMichael Murphey

Charting Aug 5, 1972Feb 19, 1983 · 79 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 79 wk

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Peak Power
1.83%
week of Jul 12, 1975
Career Power
77
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
March 1975 – March 1976
Peak Five Years
54
March 1971 – March 1976
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
79
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.28%
week of Jun 21, 1975
Comebacks
1
Oct 1982, after 7 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

6 records · 77 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
Wildfire#31929.8
What's Forever For#192021.2
Carolina In The Pines#211312.9
Geronimo's Cadillac#37137.0
Renegade#3974.7
Still Taking Chances#7671.3

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At their peak

1975 in music

Michael Murphey's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1975 to March 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1John Denver92
  2. 2Eagles90
  3. 3Barry Manilow88
  4. 4Earth, Wind & Fire87
  5. 5Freddy Fender82
  6. 6Bee Gees75
  7. 7Linda Ronstadt71
  8. 8Olivia Newton-John70
  9. 9Elton John69
  10. 10Neil Sedaka68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.