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Miriam Makeba portraitMiriam Makeba

Charting Oct 7, 1967Feb 10, 1968 · 14 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 14 wk

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Peak Power
1.09%
week of Dec 16, 1967
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
15
February 1967 – February 1968
Peak Five Years
15
February 1963 – February 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.42%
week of Nov 25, 1967
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 · 15 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
Pata Pata#121114.9
Malayisha#8530.6

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At their peak

1967 in music

Miriam Makeba's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1967 to February 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin119
  2. 2The Monkees107
  3. 3The Young Rascals98
  4. 4The Buckinghams96
  5. 5The Beatles96
  6. 6The Turtles87
  7. 7The Association74
  8. 8Tommy James And The Shondells68
  9. 9The Temptations63
  10. 10The Mamas & The Papas60

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.